Sentence examples for unexploded landmines from inspiring English sources

Unexploded landmines have severe post-conflict humanitarian repercussions: landmines cost lives, limbs and land.

It is believed that as many as 120,000 unexploded landmines could still exist in Bosnia.

Of particular concern are unexploded landmines, increasingly becoming a feature of the conflict.

In Afghanistan, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Angola, tens of millions of unexploded landmines have rendered whole areas uninhabitable.

After the war that ended in 1995, there was a reported 1 million unexploded landmines still scattered across Bosnia's interior.

The engineered plant reacts to the nitrogen dioxide emitted from unexploded landmines causing a change in color from green to red signifying the location of landmines.

At the start of his campaign, he would have sat down his staff, explained that he was sitting on an unexploded landmine, and asked them to prepare a contingency plan.

"Children have been injured in the fighting and continue to be at risk from unexploded ordnances, landmines and other explosive remnants of war.

Unexploded shells and landmines littered the countryside, often underwater in the paddy fields where peasants waded.

Their homes have been blown to bits, hulks of burnt-out tanks litter the streets and red triangles flutter gaily all over the town warning of unexploded bombs and landmines.But the civilians must get home soon, to plant crops before the rains start, which is usually in May.

Legacy of War currently has plans to document stories in Angola, the UK, Colombia, Laos, Vietnam, Lebanon, Egypt, the US, DRC and Northern Ireland, covering topics such as long-term refugees, PTSD, disability, sexual violence, Agent Orange, unexploded bombs and landmines, as well as the rehabilitation of child soldiers.