How many innocent people must die or be maimed physically and psychologically before reason again prevails?

Livestock are understood regularly to be maimed or killed in landmine incidents.

Millions have been — and continue to be — maimed by these unassuming and inconspicuous weapons.

In many post-conflict African countries, civilians, particularly women and children, cannot move around freely for fear of being maimed or killed by landmines.

To be battered, bruised and maimed

Sometimes you may be required to maim a target.

Sometimes you may be required to maim a target.

We have heard many reports of children being killed, maimed and illegally recruited as soldiers.

Their suffering bears many faces: children are being maimed, killed, orphaned, subjected to systematic sexual violence, uprooted from home and country, deprived of education and health care, and exploited as combatants.

Tragically, in the twenty-first century, generations in many parts of the world are being maimed and haunted by past and present conflicts as a result of regime tactics of engaging in warfare through the use of landmines.