In Jharkhand, in the east, Maoist guerrillas killed 26 policemen with a landmine explosion on the same day.
It took a year to adjust to having a prosthetic limb," says one player, Muhammad Ali al-Haj, who lost the lower part of his left leg when he stepped on a landmine in 1992.
In the most serious of the recent attacks, 12 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed in a landmine attack in the Jaffna peninsula on Tuesday and, four days before that, 13 sailors were killed with mines and rocket-propelled grenades in a rebel attack in the north-west of the island.
Britain is among those that have started destroying stockpiles; it has asked America to remove cluster munitions stored in Britain within the treaty's eight-year deadline.As with the landmine ban, America stands with Russia and China in opposing the move to outlaw cluster munitions.
But there is at last a glimmer of hope for Angolans who now cannot walk to their fields without fear of stepping on a landmine, or falling into an ambush, or being labelled an enemy and executed.
Drug and alcohol addiction is a serious problem among the refugees; some blame it on the trauma of displacement, others on a plot on the part of the junta ruling Myanmar More participants in a recovery programme at the camp's centre for addiction-treatment The victim of an exploding landmine.
Words that can harm you Trade secrets Protesting too much Generali steps out Cross-breeding Weighing up the WTO Reprints Related items Face value: The branding of Saint RudyNov 21st 2002 Citigroup: Passing the buckSep 12th 2002Mr Weill has hit one landmine after another since he forced out John Reed as his co-chief executive in early 2000.
But on April 9th, two Russian trekkers were hurt by a Maoist landmine, and the constant strikes and blockades are making holidays chancy.The king's putsch has at least drawn attention to the human-rights disaster that is Nepal, though most outside interest has focused on just one part of it: the royal repression of urban opposition.
One woman's cheer sounded remarkably like the ululating of a grieving Iranian widow, and the fellow sitting next to her looked ready to chuck her on a landmine.
Prosecutors said Peter Gotti wanted him killed with a landmine or a hunting rifle, but Mr Gravano was arrested on drug charges before the plot could be carried out.As ever, reality television offers an afterlife.
In three clashes, on June 19th and 20th, the advancing police and paramilitaries faced landmine attacks and ambushes by up to 150 guerrillas.
