Columbia Shows The Way in Landmine Demilitarisation

The welcome news of the Colombian military destroying 6,800 landmines during it’s conflict with guerillas makes even more pointed the Bush administrations refusal to honour it’s landmine removal obligations.

This makes the moral argument of the U.S. election even more stark. A vote for Bush condones landmine use and torture.

The welcome news of the Colombian military destroying 6,800 landmines during it’s conflict with guerillas makes even more pointed the Bush administrations refusal to honour it’s landmine removal obligations.

This makes the moral argument of the U.S. election even more stark. A vote for Bush condones landmine use and torture.

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is part of the grass roots movement. There have been innovative technologies developed to detect buried landmines, but the issue is a combination of political, social (employment, denial of agriculture, disproportionate impact on youth) and technological problems and solutions.