"Weapons are terrible in principle - mines are even more terrible. Landmine producers should support mine victims with at least parts of the profits from their criminal business."

Prof. Klaus Staeck

(Kashmir, 20.1.2010) A landmine explosion has injured six policemen in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said.

 

(Peshawar/Pakistan, 19.1.2010) A roadside bomb on Wednesday injured a Pakistani provincial lawmaker and four others in the northwest city of Peshawar, a frequent target of attacks by Taliban militants, officials said.

 

(Ranchi, 15.1.2010) Six police personnel and a civilian were killed and one policeman went missing when Maoists blew up their vehicle in Jharkhand's Gumla District today.

 

(Kandahar Airfield, 16.1.2010) "A career soldier" and "family man" from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., has become the first Canadian killed in action in Afghanistan in 2010.

 

(Bangkok, 6.1.2010) Doubts about financial assistance to destroy left-over munitions have convinced Thailand against joining the Convention on Cluster Munitions, sources at non-governmental organizations covering the issue say.

 

(Bangkok, 6.1.2010) Doubts about financial assistance to destroy left-over munitions have convinced Thailand against joining the Convention on Cluster Munitions, sources at non-governmental organizations covering the issue say.

 

(Somalia, 15.12.2009) Reports of attacks and fighting have arrived over the past 24 hours from every corner of Somalia, from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in the north, to Mogadishu and the central Galgadud region, with an overall toll of at least 13 dead and an unspecified number wounded.

 

(Cartagena, Kolumbien, 4.12.2009) The Second Review Conference to the Ottawa-Kovenvention, the Mine Ban Treaty has been completed. A report is here available.

 

(Australia, 3.12.2009) The Australian Government today reaffirmed its strong commitment to mine action by presenting the Mine Action Strategy for the Australian aid program 2010-14 to the Summit on a Mine-Free World in Cartagena, Colombia. Under the new strategy Australia has pledged $100 million over the next five years to help developing countries affected by landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war.

 

(Cartagena, 2.12.2009) Rwanda has been declared free of landmines - the first country to achieve this status. The announcement was made at the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World in Colombia. Hundreds of people have been killed and horrifically injured by landmines in Rwanda. Landmines were laid between 1990 and 1994 in Rwanda and over the past three years more than over 9,000 have been destroyed by Rwandan soldiers.

 

(Washington, 25.11.2009) The Obama administration said on Tuesday it would keep Bush-era policy on landmines, resisting pressure from campaigning groups to accede to a treaty to ban antipersonnel mines altogether.