The West May Go On Trial with Saddam
Fri Jun 18, 2:48 AM ET
Aaron Glantz, Inter Press Service
"Over 200 sheep broke out of their pen and walked into the minefield in the
middle of the night and were killed. Then my brother went out to try to save
the flock. He also died."
"Iraq did not make any of the landmines Saddam used in his wars. They were
all sold to him by Italy, China, the United States, and the former Soviet
Union."
"In Northern Iraq the Italian built mine Valmara is the most plentiful and
the most dangerous. But the U.S. built landmine, the M-14 sold to Saddam by
the administration of then president Ronald Reagan is also lethal."
"It's almost impossible to detect," says Wiyan Abdurrachman of the Kurdish
demining organisation Aras. "There's no trigger that we can look for and
mine is set off by pressure."
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