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Colombia, 2: A Legacy of Land Mines

By David Schonauer   Wednesday November 25, 2015

Among the legacies of Colombia’s long war are land mines that dot the country’s mountainsides: The nation has the world’s second highest rate of fatalities from land mines, after Afghanistan. The Colombian government says that more than 11,000 people have been injured or killed by the mines since 1990, notes …

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