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orty countries have ratified the Ottawa Treaty to ban antipersonnel land mines so the treaty will be law in early 1999. The United States, so far has refused to even sign the treaty, let alone make it law. Paradoxically, the U.S. reserves the right to lay mines anywhere, even as it supports mine removal and humanitarian relief for the victims of mine warfare.
Featured
Experts:
Steve Goose,
Program Director Human Rights Watch Arms Division
Senator Patrick Leahy, D-VT
United States Senate
Bobby Muller, President
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
Ken Rutherford, Co-Founder
Landmine Survivors Network
Donald Steinberg, Special Representative of the President and the Secretary of State
Global Humanitarian Demining
Representative Jack Quinn, (R-NY) United States Congress
Joe Volk, Co-Chairman U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines
Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Co-Laureate, Ambassador International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Produced:
March 7, 1999
Running Time:
29 minutes
Show Number:
1226
Price: $39
Internet Discount: $29
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