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The Devastating Impact of LandminesItalic text

It’s no question landmines are a weapon of destruction. They were used in World War 1 and 2 and since then have been left abandoned in the very place they were designed to cause chaos, except today, instead of soldiers in camouflage sweeping across the field, machine gun at the ready, its innocent children playing in the fields, walking home from school, it’s hardworking men and women, getting crop ready to sell so they can feed their families.

Since 1975 at least one million people have lost their lives, or limbs to landmines, an estimated 800 people die a month to landmines. 64 countries across the globe waits 110 million landmines waiting for their chance to explode upon the next innocent victim. These children and their parents were never supposed to be the intended target of these landmines, yet they are. Today superpower countries like China and Russia are still manufacturing landmines and gaining a huge profit from sales.

Landmines bring suffering and heartache not only to those who are injured or killed but also to the economy by causing damage to crop, a soar in costs of medical treatment, cost of families treating their injured relatives and the list goes on.

It costs more to eliminate landmines that it does to manufacture them. The only real way to stop the production of landmines is to boycott the very companies that produce them and any companies endorsing the sale of landmines. Landmines won’t disappear overnight but together we can over time see the elimination of landmines.