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"Landmines
are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because
they continue to kill and maim innocent people long
after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them
keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them
from growing food."
-- Kofi
Annan
"Not
only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence
and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent
women and children; but the presence or even the fear
of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the
cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village
of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a
country’s road to reconstruction and development"
-- Kofi
Annan
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"Millions
of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear
of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which
take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and
people's livelihoods"
-- Ban
Ki-moon
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"Officials
of governments that use or produce landmines should
be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt
people and make them suffer, because this would
surely make them stop."
-- Jackie
Chan
I
just couldn’t stop thinking about what landmines
are doing to people here. I told people - my friends
- about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I
had to do more.
-- Jackie
Chan
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“It
is the most painful thing to see how young children
become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties
are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords.
And as long as these silent killers linger after wars,
children will never know peace”
-- Danny
Glover
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"The
eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is
one of the most important tasks facing the international
community."
-- Norman Jewison
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It's
angering that not everybody has signed this treaty
to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because
it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of
civilians. They're not effective in any other real
way. They've enough weapons for war.
~ Angelina
Jolie
"The
most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in
the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you
expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan,
all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't.
(The US government) feels it's against their constitutional
right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed
in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think
any of these are good enough excuses for the damage."
~ Angelina
Jolie
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The
statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering
but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable"
-- David Knopfler
"It's
hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent
children and animals being blown up by landmines."
-- Twiggy Lawson
"Life
is about making choices: you can either spend three quid
on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three
square metres of minefield and help give people their
lives back. As simple as that."
-- Twiggy Lawson
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When
a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave
the war behind you in minefields that hit women and
children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war
is finished and you go to work and there are snipers
shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach
and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath
you. Like there's nowhere safe.That's what I think
is insidious about landmines."
-- Paul
McCartney
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UNICEF
is doing amazing things here. They’re helping these
groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and
workshops to teach children in all of the schools
in the area to be aware of mines and what to do if
they find one, and if somebody’s hurt, not to rush
in – all of the essential things that kids need to
know.”
-- Ewan
McGregor
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"A
mine-free world does not need to be a dream - together,
we can make it a reality."
-- Heather Mills
"Every
day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines
long after wars are over."
-- Heather Mills
“I
abhor mines”
-- Colin Powell
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Land
mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons
are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human
beings. Most victims are civilians, women and children.
How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant
managers, politicians, who have families of their own
whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes to the
suffering of other human beings?
-- José
Ramos-Horta
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“Together
we have given the world the possibility of one day living
on a truly mine-free planet."
-- Jody
Williams
The
landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier
or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going
out to collect firewood to make the family meal… once
peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that
peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.
--
Jody
Williams
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