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Defense and Security Studies

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1999

Advocacy and international law

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Angola, An Eyewitness Report Of The Landmine Crisis, Helen Long Oct 1999

Angola, An Eyewitness Report Of The Landmine Crisis, Helen Long

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Leaving the humidity and incessant noise of the Angolan capital, Luanda, whose streets are cluttered with cars and bands of children who subsist on a diet of refuse and insults, the elderly Hercules, a plane loaded with American corn, climbed unsteadily into the gray monsoon sky. It was the second flight the Hercules had made that morning to Malange, the northwestern provincial capital, and another ten planes laden with food were scheduled to follow that day. Malange is just one of more than 20 destinations that food and relief supplies are flown to everyday to keep alive the 2 million …


War Child, Cisr Journal Oct 1999

War Child, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Heavily mined areas take the highest toll on the poor civilian populations that surround post-conflict areas.


Reclaiming The Land: A Veteran Revisits Vietnam, J.S. Chadwck Jun 1999

Reclaiming The Land: A Veteran Revisits Vietnam, J.S. Chadwck

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

When is a war really over? When the peace treaties are signed and the armies withdrawn? Or, when ordnance left over from the fighting is no longer killing people? If the answer to the last question is yes, then the Vietnam War is still going on. In Vietnam today people are being killed, or wounded on a daily basis by ordnance left behind by a conflict that should have ended 24 years ago. Most of those people are children. Throughout the Vietnamese countryside there are tens of thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO). These UXO run the gamut from …