Landmines: time for an international ban
- 20 April 1996
- Vol. 312 (7037) , 990-991
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7037.990
Abstract
The case against the continued production and use of antipersonnel mines, like that against poison gas and biological warfare, is their indiscriminate effects on civilians and children. The profession of arms, like all professions, has evolved a code of ethics,4 with the underlying ethos that even when all attempts to maintain peace have failed, when peoples or nations go to war, it is still possible to prosecute combat at a …Keywords
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