[Imc-newsroom] Colombia headline

[Mike Lehman]

Maybe not. All sides in Colombia have a long record of using mines.
Here's a link for background:
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0812-02.htm>
Mike Lehman

peterm at shout.net wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know how many land mine companies the Bush administration has
> investments in?
> 
> Land mine fatalaties up by 40% over a year ago.  Seems to correspond to an
> increase in US military involvement...
> 
> -p
> 
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> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:11:45 -0400
> From: info at embajadacolombia.ca
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> Subject: Land mines kill 47 in first half of 2002: Colombian official
> 
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> + Land mines kill 47 in first half of 2002: Colombian official
> 
> DATELINE: BOGOTA, July 9 (AFP)
> 
> BODY:
> Land mines killed 47 people and wounded 82 in the first half of 2002, and
> that number is rising, Defense Minister Gustavo Bell said Tuesday.
> 
> "Colombia is ... perhaps the only country in the world, which in the
> midst of an armed conflict, has publicly recognized that it has problems
> with the use of this type of lethal artifacts, and has begun the task of
> looking at the phenomenon in an objective way," Bell told representatives
> of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Geneva International
> Center for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD).
> 
> The figures have risen by 40 percent over the same period a year ago, he
> said.
> 
> Bell, who also serves as vice president, said that 158 mines exploded
> over the period, leaving 129 victims after 54 of the incidents, of which
> 47 died at the scene.
> 
> Of all victims for the first half of 2002, 17 were minors, Bell said.
> 
> Land mine injuries claim one victim in Colombia every 36 hours, Bell
> said, adding that in 95 percent of the cases the victims are male.