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Rezension von: Landmines: a deadly legacy. - United States : Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights, 1993

Das Bändchen aus der wichtigen "Zum Beispiel"-Reihe nimmt sich des jüngst stark diskutierten Themas der Landminen an. Neben den Berichten aus besonders stark durch Minenverlegung betroffenen Regionen zeigt eine Chronik den Kampf um ein Verbot dieser heimtückischen Waffe auf, der gerade Zivilisten und Kinder oft zum Opfer fallen. Auch von großem Interesse dürfte die "garantiert unvollständige Liste deutscher Hersteller, die im Zusammenhang mit Minenproduktion genannt werden" sein. Das Schlußkapitel informiert über den "Umgang", den die Bundeswehr mit Minen pflegt. Adressen und Literaturempfehlungen. Sehr aktuell, Chronik reicht bis zum "no" Clintons und "da" Jelzins, der dann allerdings die Vertreter Rußlands nicht nach Ottawa schickte. - Überall notwendig. (Kap)

In spite of the peace accord signed in October 1992 between government forces and RENAMO rebels, innocent civilians are maimed and killed by landmines in Mozambique on a daily basis. In spite of the peace accord signed in October 1992 between government forces and RENAMO rebels, innocent civilians are maimed and killed by landmines in Mozambique on a daily basis. To date, these weapons have claimed more than 10,000 victims — mostly civilians — and the casualty toll could increase rapidly as millions of refugees and displaced people return home to roads and fields littered with mines. Landmines were used in violation of international law by government troops, RENAMO rebels, and various foreign forces. In some instances, civilians were directly targeted; often the mines were scattered in an indiscriminate and random fashion, terrorizing local communities. The devastation caused by landmines in Mozambique — not only for the many civilian victims, but also to the socioeconomic well-being of the nation — is appalling. Clearance of mines could take decades, but so far, little has been done. Landmines in Mozambique is part of a series of reports by Human Rights Watch that document the effects on the civilian population of landmines used in armed conflicts. Human Rights Watch calls for an international ban on the production, stockpiling, transfer and use of antipersonnel landmines as the only way to address this global human rights, humanitarian and ecological disaster.

Selected statements and documents from Norwegian, Swedish, UN, and US sources on the Sept. 1997 diplomatic conference on landmines, held in Oslo, Norway, and the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize award to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).