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Did you know....
- Every 22 minutes someone steps on a mine, either being killed
or maimed
- There are 70 casualties a day, 500 a week, 2000 a month and 26,000
a year, all as a result of landmines
- Mine victims constitute about 4% of hospital admissions in many
developing countries, yet they use almost 25% of a hospitals resources
- At present, there are over 110 million mines in 64 countries worldwide
- There are only two inhabited continents that do not have old minefields,
Australia and North America
- If we continue clearing mines at the rate we are today, it will
take 1,100 years to finish the job, or until the year 3097
- For every one mine that is cleared, somewhere between 20 and 50
new mines are planted
- Without mine fields, the land available for agriculture andlivestock
would increase by 11% in Bosnia, and 88% in Afghanistan
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