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Boch Non The Village Of Many Widows, Paul Giannone
Boch Non The Village Of Many Widows, Paul Giannone
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Battambang Province has rich soil, precious gems and forests. The area once produced enough food to feed the entire country. Now the major harvest is landmines and unexploded munitions. But the province, now at peace, does provide opportunity. Villages are springing up wherever road improvements are made. People are homesteading regardless of the risk of landmines and buried bombs or the fact that there is no infrastructure to support them. Those that can't cope, and many can't, end up back in refugee camps or destitute in the larger cities.
Care, Cisr Journal
Care, Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) is one of the world's largest private international relief and development organizations. CARE USA has operations in 50 countries around the world.
Can We Face The Landmine Victims?, Clarice Taylor
Can We Face The Landmine Victims?, Clarice Taylor
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
A crowd of "mutilados," Portuguese for the mutilated ones, gathered outside the CARE office in Menongue, Angola. Among them were a few with prosthetic limbs, mostly ill fitting. As for the rest of the legless, they got around on crutches that looked like found objects. Several people in the crowd had lost an arm, one person was missing both. Another man had the requisite number of arms and legs, but no hands. These were survivors of landmines.