Weapons worth Banning
August 31st 2006 01:31
Weapons worth Banning
Several years ago I was speaking with technical officer who was sent to Cambodia to help build telecommunications. He explained to me some of the safety advice that he had been given which surprised me. Don’t go behind a tree if you need to relieve yourself and don’t go into open fields that are yet to be cleared for farming. The culprit of this fear was Landmines left during the reign of Pol Pot. To me it seemed a cruel fate for nation to be removing unexploded landmines for generations after a conflict was over. Yet at the campaign to ban Landmines had only just begun and was seen as more of a crazy suggestion then a crying need. How could some weapons be banned when war is dirty and anything is fair if you win? The answer lays more in the nature of the weapon and how it is used that determines where it should ever be used
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Several years ago I was speaking with technical officer who was sent to Cambodia to help build telecommunications. He explained to me some of the safety advice that he had been given which surprised me. Don’t go behind a tree if you need to relieve yourself and don’t go into open fields that are yet to be cleared for farming. The culprit of this fear was Landmines left during the reign of Pol Pot. To me it seemed a cruel fate for nation to be removing unexploded landmines for generations after a conflict was over. Yet at the campaign to ban Landmines had only just begun and was seen as more of a crazy suggestion then a crying need. How could some weapons be banned when war is dirty and anything is fair if you win? The answer lays more in the nature of the weapon and how it is used that determines where it should ever be used
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