Although the civil war in Angola is over, on average 120 people are killed a month there due to land mines. Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Iraq, and Laos are of the top five countries affected by land mines day in and day out. These people must watch every step in order to survive a daily routine where for there very next step could be there las

only when compressed by something weighing hundreds of kilograms. These mines were large, clumsy, and easily re-deployed by the opposing forces - and often re-laid against the tanks of the original mine layers. For this reason the AP (anti-personnel) mine was developed and designed to prevent enemy soldiers from removing the anti-tank mines. At this time its use was, on the whole, controlled, targeted at soldiers and linked to specific military objectives. It wasn't until the 1960s that the random dissemination of mines began. During the US forces' 9 year bombing campaign of Laos, millions of mines were dropped by plane in a vain attempt to close the Ho Chi Minh Trail. By the time Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan in 1979, randomly targeted and remotely delivered mines were accepted as normal.

ATM’s where specifically designed for blowing up tanks and vehicles. They explode

t. Bosnia, Croatia, Georgia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Sudan are also badly mine fertile countries that are known to have very bad problems with land mines. The vast majority of casualties are men, often soldiers. For instanc

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