Afghanistan: Land mines aren't leaving

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Since 2012, the United Nations' Mine Action Coordination Center of Afghanistan has recorded 70 casualties in and around U.S. or NATO firing ranges or bases; 88 percent of those victims were children.

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Source/Credit: Foreign Policy
By Emily Schneider | April 10, 2014

A growing number of Afghan children are dying from U.S. explosives that litter about 800 square miles of land in Afghanistan the Washington Post reported on Wednesday (Post).

Since 2012, the United Nations' Mine Action Coordination Center of Afghanistan has recorded 70 casualties in and around U.S. or NATO firing ranges or bases; 88 percent of those victims were children.

The Post found 14 casualties that were not included in the U.N. data and that the numbers are increasing.

As part of the planned 2014 withdrawal of NATO and U.S. forces, the U.S. military has vacated firing ranges that are packed with explosives; the military has removed munitions from only 3 percent of the territory covered by its ranges.

Officials say they intend to clean up the ranges, which cold take two to five years, but funding


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