Abstract
Over the past 25 years, driving past Jordan Valley mine fields fenced off by barbed wire, visiting with landmine victims, or tallying the grim statistics, I have grieved for the children and adults in the Middle East routinely maimed or killed by these weapons of mass destruction in slow motion. Our region has been called the landmine heartland of the world, with an estimated 50 million mines scarring the earth from Morocco to Afghanistan. Beyond the physical and psychological torture of those who have been injured, or lost loved ones, is the further punishment of land made desolate, lost to productive use, held hostage by the menace of landmines. About 10 percent of Jordan’s population lives in areas unable to be worked or planted or traversed because of this subterranean terror.
Recommended Citation
Queen Noor, Her Majesty
(2001)
"Combating Subterranean Terror,"
Journal of Mine Action
: Vol. 5
:
Iss.
3
, Article 2.
Available at:
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cisr-journal/vol5/iss3/2
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