Implications of the Ottawa Treaty on Landmines

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In this paper, the 1997 Ottawa Treaty is examined. The writer explains that this treaty was signed by 122 countries, but not the United States, China, Russia or India and other nations. In this article, the writer discusses the use of landmines in warfare. Further, the writer examines the danger to civilians from the landmines, once the war is over.

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"The use of landmines in warfare has a long and terrible history. Apart from their so-called legitimate use in armed conflict the danger of landmines to civilians in the aftermath of hostilities presents a uniquely insidious problem. Anti-personnel landmines or APL's are widely considered to be ethically problematic weapons because their victims are commonly civilians who are often killed or maimed long after a war has ended. Some accounts place the origin of land mines in China in the ... "

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