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I find the story touching. Unexploded ordnance is a problem mainly for children in former war zones. Imagine if the park / playground / vacant land where you

I find the story touching. Unexploded ordnance is a problem mainly for children in former war zones. Imagine if the park / playground / vacant land where you played as a child was mined and you witnessed others, perhaps your friends getting killed or severely maimed there. Such an issue would weigh heavily on you for a lifetime. While we can't seem to ban war, many countries have joined a treaty banning landmines. That doesn't help with the ~100M unexploded mines in the world already. This is a bigger problem than one would ever imagine.

nosse 14y ago
"many countries have joined a treaty banning landmines" The ones that should join that treaty have not. My country should not have joined. I'm from Finland. All that treaty ever did was to get rid of foot mines that we're designed to be planted around a heavy tank mine to make the whole deal difficult to disassemble. Now as our mines are easily disassembled, it just kind makes attacking here easier. So completely opposite outcome is very probable than what was intended.