Landmines are being used again. Bold UN action must help their post-conflict victims
Last year, Ukraine became the most land-mined country on Earth. It is an inauspicious harbinger for this year’s 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty entering international law. By some estimates, one-third of Ukraine is now contaminated. Even more will be before this conflict is over. The frontiers of this treaty are clearly being stretched. Until this war, no signatory country, like Ukraine, had been invaded. Neither had a non-signatory, as is Russia, entered a land war of conquest. Both have been laying mines since the invasion. But this does not mean the treaty has failed. Over th...