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Landmine
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Landmine
A victim-triggered antipersonnel device buried in a road or field and intended to—when trod upon or run over by a vehicle—explode and kill/maim the enemy


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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi Environment Ministry's landmine affairs department has received official requests to sanction four local companies to remove landmines left from previous wars in all Iraqi provinces, a department source said on Sunday.
A Kurdish lawmaker in the Iraqi parliament said that out of the 12 million landmines planted in Iraqi Kurdistan by the former Iraqi regime, only 45,000 of them have been cleared until now.
Under great pressure from states parties over the course of the week, the United Kingdom made major concessions," said Steve Goose, who heads the International Campaign to Ban Landmines delegation.
 
 
 
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