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9780807050040

Sowing the Dragon's Teeth

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807050040

  • ISBN10:

    0807050040

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-09-01
  • Publisher: Beacon Pr
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Summary

Each year an estimated 26,000 people are killed or maimed by the more than 100 million anti-personnel land mines -- sown like the mythical dragon's teeth -- in over sixty-two countries around the world. These weapons are designed to maim, and their primary victims are civilians. Philip Winslow draws on his years as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa to show us the human cost of this calamity. He journeys into rural Angola -- one microcosm of the worldwide situation -- and introduces us to the lives of the victims, the difficult tasks facing the deminers, and the way land mines destroy a nation's economy and infrastructure. Moving beyond Angola, Winslow shows us that land mines represent a legacy of twentieth-century war that few countries are willing or able to remove. He writes about the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the ways in which we might finally pull the dragon's teeth from the earth, to restore it to those who live on it. For every book sold, a donation will be made to the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation for their work in providing artificial limbs to land-mine victims in Angola.

Table of Contents

Author's Note: The Worst War in the World ix
Introduction 1(6)
i "No One Knows Where the Mines Are Buried"
7(14)
ii Chisola
21(9)
iii The Road to Canage
30(12)
iv Mutilados
42(14)
v "Mines Are Not My Problem"
56(13)
vi Turner, Priestley, and Rice
69(12)
vii Under Siege
81(10)
viii Why Does It Take So Long?
91(14)
ix A Museum of Crutches
105(7)
x Luckiest Survivor in the World
112(14)
xi "Not War, but Murder"
126(12)
xii The Campaign to Ban Mines
138(11)
xiii "All I Want to Do Is Drive a Truck"
149(10)
Epilogue 159(3)
Map of Angola
162(1)
Notes 163(3)
Acknowledgments 166

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