landmines
Chile Is Still Littered with a Dictator's Unexploded Landmines
Augusto Pinochet left more than 100,000 landmines behind, and it's taking forever to dig them up.
Haunting Photos of Bosnia's Never-Ending Land Mine and Flooding Problem
Earlier this year, Bosnia experienced massive flooding, and as a result land mines that had been dormant for almost two decades slid into towns, disguised under a layer of wet, dark earth.
Mines and Mass Graves in Bosnia
An estimated 120,000 landmines still litter the Bosnian countryside since the end of the war there in 1995, making daily life a challenge for hundreds of thousands of people.
Balkan Floods Are Bringing Fears of Bosnian War Landmines Resurfacing
The worst floods to hit Serbia and Bosnia in decades left thousands homeless and threaten to inundate a major power plant.
Communities Full of Land Mines Are Rejecting Land-Mine Removal
Which is a tragedy, because getting rid of things that explode people indiscriminately should be one of the world's more uncontroversial aid projects.
Colombia's Hidden Killers - Trailer
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was founded five decades ago years ago as a Marxist people’s army fighting against capitalist imperialism and Colombia’s often-brutal government. In order to secure their dwindling territory and...
We Don’t Always Get the War We Want
It’s four in the morning on my 38th birthday, and I am staring up at the thatched roof of a small jungle clinic in Karen State of eastern Burma, the home of the world’s longest-running armed conflict—a 63-year civil war between the Burmese army and the...
Brett Van Ort's Beautiful Land(mine)scapes
If the thought of landmines evoke images of war-torn death-scapes, Brett Van Ort has some photographs you should see.