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The main street of Sokcho in 1967, 14 years after the end of the Korean War. The city, which belonged to North Korea before the war, lies in South Korea today.
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A French hospital in Sarajevo, Bosnia, 1993.
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Victims of mine explosions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1992.
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A young girl passes by a hospital for amputations in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1995.
Gilles Peress / Magnum
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A prosthetics centre in Herat, Afghanistan, 2011.
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Larry Towell / Magnum
Prostheses constructed from the materials at hand for the patients in Mazar-i Sharif, Afghanistan, 2008.
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The disabled gather for the presenttion of prizes for the winners of an amputee bicycle race in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 1994. It is estimated that Afghanistan has the highest number of landmines in the world.
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A young woman who stepped on a landmine lies in a hospital in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, 2001.
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Larry Towell / Magnum
An ex-government soldier plays soccer at an army rehabilitation centre in San Salvador, 1995.
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Larry Towell / Magnum
Women victims of landmines wait to be fitted with prosthetic legs at an International Committee of the Red Cross treatment centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, 2010.
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A patient tries on a prosthesis at a Red Cross orthopaedic centre in Angola. The centre produces around 60 prostheses per month.
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A shepherd wounded by an anti-personnel mine in the Paghman province of Afghanistan.
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Bosnia, 1992.
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A football match in Monrovia, Liberia, between veterans who served various rebel organisations during the civil war.
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In the last 20 years, 45 million anti-personnel mines were eliminated worldwide. The number of victims dropped from 20,000 to 5,000 annually.
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Still, thousands continue to live with the consequences of war. Their suffering is visible in countries like Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Cambodia, where orthopaedic centres have been built for the rehabilitation of amputees.
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The man who walks through minefields
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On a table in Thun military barracks, Sergeant Roman Wilhelm shows us two plastic boxes – two containers of death. Inside are different types of landmines: anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, ones made of plastic and metal, round ones and long ones. Some are designed to explode at the slightest pressure, others need a chemical reaction…
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“There is a vast difference between nuclear weapons and landmines. The former are weapons of the rich, the latter of the poor. Yet they also have something in common: they are weapons which cast the shadow of war also across peace.” With these words the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign…
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