Queen Noor of Jordan: Obama's Opportunity to Lead a Landmine-Free .
Dec-4-2009 Posted under Uncategorized
For twelve years the United States has refused to ban a weapon that kills and mutilates innocent women men and children even in peacetime The time has come for the world s most powerful high tech military to give up its low tech stockpile of ten million antipersonnel landmines Today there are millions of mines buried in over 80 countries and over 160 million more stored in arsenals waiting to go in the ground These indiscriminate devices lay dormant until detonated by something living a child walking to school a farmer or grazing livestock One victim at a time these weapons of mass destruction in slow motion have killed Read the rest of this entry »
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