Hundreds of years to de-mine Afghanistan

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Pictured: The harrowing plight of children maimed in Afghanistan by the thousands of landmines scattered across the country after decades of war

Up to 10million mines lay in schools, fields and pathways, and dozens of children are maimed and killed every day

There are nearly 100,000 amputees in Afghanistan and the slow process of de-mining will take hundreds of years

Mines from Britain and the U.S. have been found but the vast majority are from a war with Russia that ended in 1989

Helicopter crews dropped millions of 'butterfly mines', which are made of green plastic and are mistaken for toys

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Interesting quotes from the article:

It's believed there are currently 10million mines spread around the impoverished country, which British and American forces left only last year after a campaign lasting more than a decade.

But the majority of the mines, in grazing fields, schools, paths and waterways all over the country, are the remnants of a war with Russia that ended in 1989.

The Soviet Union went to war with the Mujehadien freedom fighters in 1979 and placed millions of mines during the ten-year campaign.

Today, mine clearance teams in Afghanistan still find literally dozens of types of landmines, mainly from former Soviet Union but also from Belgium, Italy, the United States and Britain.

The most infamous mine used during the Soviet Union's occupation period was the so-called 'butterfly' mine which is covered in green plastic and many children mistake for a toy.

Its hilariously ironic that the needle d-icks and Paishas on this site that that praise the harbingers of modernity (Russia) and insisted that the presence of the Red Army was meant to "free and modernize" Afghanistan and that the current occupation is meant to do much of the same - are often overeager to discuss IED related asymmetric tactic related casualties and war tactics of the bare foot, poor, and often destitute insurgents.

The mining, they justify with - well it was a tactic of war against a ghost like enemy that relied on the land to survive... permitting their foreign backers one excuse but not at all using science, evidence, analysis, and sociology to draw similar conclusions or at least analyze fairly how war works on the other side (i.e. native militias and what not that rely on asymmetry).

I guess secondary gain makes wh-ores dance, and I guess trying to deny being a wh-ore while obviously being one is tertiary gain.