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Bringing Back ‘Archaic And Gruesome Weapons,’ Trump Reverses US Restrictions On Landmines

February 3, 2020 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org , , ,
"In case you didn't know, because they're from one of the most draconian chapters of 20th century, the victims of landmines are mostly innocent civilians and especially children," said immigration attorney Curtis Morrison. The decision, which Common Dreams reported about on Thursday, reverses a 2014 order by former President Barack Obama that constrained the weapons' use to the Korean Peninsula and committed the U.S. to no further production of the mines.

Remnants Of War

July 20, 2019 Kathy Kelly, Intrepid Report. , , ,
Intense fighting and hideous attacks battered Afghans throughout their country last week as negotiators in Qatar weighed the benefits and costs of a peace agreement that might stop the bloodshed. In Kabul at least 40 people, including one child, were killed in a complex Taliban attack. Dozens of children whose school was partially collapsed by a massive car bomb were injured. Of these, 21 were hospitalized with serious injuries. New York Times correspondent Mujib Mashal posted (on Twitter) a photo of an elementary school child being carried into the Italian Emergency Surgical Center for Victims of War in Kabul. “Blood on his face,” Mashal writes, describing the child. “Still in shock. Still clutching that pencil.”

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