| Could have been newly planted, could be left over from Soviet times — thank goodness about 2/3rds of the country has been cleared of the things. |
kaboom!ordnance detonated in the eastern Laghman
...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men.
province on Sunday evening, the provincial governor’s front man Assadullah Dawlatzai said.
The children were playing outside their houses in Basram area, a village on the outskirts of the Mihtarlam city, the center of Laghman, when they were hit by an unwent
kaboom!ordnance, he said.
He said the incident took place at around 5pm local time.
Figures by government show that at least 120 civilians are affected by mines and unwent
kaboom!ordnance every month as they are either killed or maimed.
The statistics show that at least 3,400 square kilometers of land has been cleared of mines and unwent
kaboom!ordnance, but 1,700 square kilometers is yet to be cleared.