Kill Percentage

6. Urges Member States to promote the establishment of regional and subregional zones free of anti personnel mines

Injurious effects of anti personnel mines

Civilian casualties were heavy in consequence of the use of internationally proscribed incendiary and fragmentation bombs in the bombings of residential quarters of the Tyre region.

Territories in conflict are usually sown with anti personnel mines.

It also seeks to transform the Middle East region into a zone that is totally free from all kinds of weapons of mass destruction.

1997 33.

USE, RECORDING AND REMOVAL OF MOTAPMS, AND MINEFIELDS AND MINED AREAS OF MOTAPMS

They are indiscriminate weapons whose use is a violation of international humanitarian law.

The Rio Group countries are committed to working towards converting the region into the world apos s first to be free of anti personnel mines.

Anti Personnel Landmines

Anti personnel Landmines

(g) Murder and infliction of injury

Anti personnel landmines and explosive remnants of war inflicted death and injury around the world.

1997 33. Injurious effects of anti personnel

Mine other than anti personnel mine , hereinafter referred to as MOTAPM , means a mine which cannot be defined as an anti personnel mine.

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

Fragmentation bombs and missiles

In large parts of the world, small arms and light weapons are weapons of mass destruction.

The following provisions on removal of MOTAPMs, and minefields and mined areas of MOTAPMs, and international cooperation, apply.

With regard to the issue of anti personnel landmines, South Africa attaches great importance to strong regional, subregional and national commitments.

On 12 March 1985 over 30 people were killed and hundreds were injured in a massacre carried out by Israeli forces in several villages in the Al Tuffah area.

Question of participation

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

Protection from the effects of MOTAPMs, and minefields and mined areas of MOTAPMs

The Sudan supports and contributes to the international and regional efforts aimed at banning anti personnel landmines.

Classified as chemical weapons, they cause burns and injuries.

When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, that day, everybody in my community was upset.

The conflict ridden Middle East should be a zone free from nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.

(e) Jordan has supported all initiatives aimed at the establishment of a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction.

Anti Personnel Landmines

Somebody hurt or killed.

He went and harmed someone or killed someone...

A large number of persons had reportedly been killed, some deliberately, and many injured persons were trapped in Sernovodsk, following military operations.

They must therefore be banned.

Anti personnel landmines belong to this category.

Anti personnel landmines should be completely proscribed.

7. Anti personnel mines

Turkey s position on Iran s nuclear program has been similarly clear we are categorically opposed to the presence of weapons of mass destruction in our region. Attempts to develop or acquire WMDs might well trigger a regional arms race, leading to further instability and threatening international peace and security.

(b) States and parties to a conflict bear such responsibility with respect to MOTAPMs, and minefields and mined areas of MOTAPMs, in areas under their control.

It will be informed, inter alia, of the many recent regional initiatives to combat APL mines.

All weapons directly aimed at killing or mutilating civilians, including anti personnel mines and nuclear weapons, must be banned.

The second wave was the mutated, super killer wave.

Indiscriminate use is any placement of MOTAPMs

How many anti personnel mines have we?