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    A Landmine Free Afghanistan

    Afghanistan is one of the most mined countries in the world and has the highest level of contamination from explosive remnants of war (ERW). Mines and unexploded ordinance is claiming hundreds of lives in Afghanistan each year. Thousands of people are affected by landmines and unexploded ordinance are unable to use their land for farming or grazing their livestock. “Since 1993, the United States has invested more than $2.4 billion to more than 90 countries around the world to reduce the harmful worldwide effects of at-risk, illicitly proliferated, and indiscriminately used conventional weapons of war.” According to the United Nations Mine Action Gateway, civilian casualties from mines dropped from 16 individual daily in 1998 to 1 individual daily in 2015.
    aria2013
    Digital Engagement Team, U.S. CENTCOM
    Tags: afghanistan, free, landmine
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    Who planted most of these mines?
    Even Adobe Photoshop can't change me.

    A line[Durrand line] of hatred that raised a wall between the two brothers -Hamid Karzai

    For generations, the Hindus of India prayed for deliverance from "the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger and the vengeance of the Afghan."


    The men of Kábul and Khilj also went home; and whenever they were questioned about the Musulmáns of the Kohistán (the mountains), and how matters stood there, they said, "Don't call it Kohistán, but Afghánistán; for there is nothing there but Afgháns and disturbances." Thus it is clear that for this reason the people of the country call their home in their own language Afghánistán, and themselves Afgháns. The people of India call them Patán; but the reason for this is not known. But it occurs to me, that when, under the rule of Muhammadan sovereigns, Musulmáns first came to the city of Patná, and dwelt there, the people of India (for that reason) called them Patáns—but God knows!

    -Ferishta, 1560–1620

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      The US has used landmines in Afghanistan:
      Backgrounder: Landmines in Afghanistan (Human Rights Watch October 2001)
      https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/arms/landmines-bck1011.htm

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