Landmines
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"Landmines
are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because
they continue to kill and maim innocent people
long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear
of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents
them from growing food."
-- Kofi Annan
"Not
only do these abominable weapons lie buried in
silence and in their millions waiting to kill
or maim innocent women and children; but the presence
or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine
can prevent the cultivation of an entire field,
rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet
another obstacle on a country’s road to reconstruction
and development"
-- Kofi Annan
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"Millions
of people in nearly 80 countries still live in
fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war,
which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs,
and people's livelihoods"
-- Ban Ki-moon
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"Officials
of governments that use or produce landmines
should be forced to see the reality of how landmines
hurt people and make them suffer, because this
would surely make them stop."
-- Jackie Chan
I
just couldn’t stop thinking about what landmines
are doing to people here. I told people - my
friends - about it, but it was just not enough.
I knew I had to do more.
-- Jackie
Chan
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“It
is the most painful thing to see how young children
become collateral damage of wars, but when peace
treaties are signed landmines do not respect any
of these accords. And as long as these silent
killers linger after wars, children will never
know peace”
-- Danny Glover
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"The
eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world
is one of the most important tasks facing the international
community."
-- Norman Jewison
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It's
angering that not everybody has signed this treaty
to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is,
because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage
of civilians. They're not effective in any other
real way. They've enough weapons for war.
~ Angelina Jolie
"The
most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader
in the world, and if they don't sign, then how
do you expect to convince Russian and China and
Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to
sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels
it's against their constitutional right to bear
arms, or they've said that it's needed in North
and South Korea, on the border. I don't think
any of these are good enough excuses for the damage."
~ Angelina Jolie
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The
statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering
but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely
doable"
-- David Knopfler
"It's
hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent
children and animals being blown up by landmines."
-- Twiggy Lawson
"Life
is about making choices: you can either spend three
quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing
three square metres of minefield and help give people
their lives back. As simple as that."
-- Twiggy Lawson
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When
a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to
leave the war behind you in minefields that hit
women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine
the war is finished and you go to work and there
are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your
kids to the beach and you find that the beach
is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere
safe.That's what I think is insidious about landmines."
-- Paul McCartney
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UNICEF
is doing amazing things here. They’re helping
these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using
drama and workshops to teach children in all of
the schools in the area to be aware of mines and
what to do if they find one, and if somebody’s
hurt, not to rush in – all of the essential things
that kids need to know.”
-- Ewan McGregor
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"A
mine-free world does not need to be a dream - together,
we can make it a reality."
-- Heather Mills
"Every
day women and children are killed and maimed by
landmines long after wars are over."
-- Heather Mills
“I
abhor mines”
-- Colin Powell
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Land
mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical
weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and
death on human beings. Most victims are civilians,
women and children. How can arms manufacturers,
weapons designers, plant managers, politicians,
who have families of their own whom they love, be
so insensitive when it comes to the suffering of
other human beings?
-- José Ramos-Horta
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“Together
we have given the world the possibility of one day
living on a truly mine-free planet."
-- Jody Williams
The
landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier
or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother
going out to collect firewood to make the family
meal… once peace is declared the landmine does not
recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally
prepared to take victims.
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Jody Williams
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