Stop antipersonnel mines
Can one dream that one day all the children of the world will be able to
walk on this earth safely. This is a long way to go. For the time being,
every twenty minutes someone is the victim of antipersonnel land mines throughout
the world. And one victim out of three has to be amputated.
At the end of a conflict, mines keep on killing preventing any possibility of a peaceful life. Mines are estimated roughly at 110 million scattered over 64 countries (specially in Africa), ready to explode.
World opinion is facing this outrageous situation. The international community reacts strongly. A project of treaty forbidding land mines has just been signed in Oslo. It is an improvement and a victory. But America does not want to sign this project, aligning itself on Peking, Moscow, New-Delhi...
This is a fight for all citizens of the world, after the Red Cross and Princess Diana, asking for a treaty forbidding the manufacturing, the use and the pilestocking of all land mines. With no exception to this rule. As it never rains, it always pours, I have just heard that death penalty is still on for the Universal Catechism of the Catholic Church from Rome.
In America, the 3046 prisoners condemned to death who are waiting in
death rows, will see that the Catholic Church does not care about letting
them go to their fate. What a good opportunity to seize, for the political
power. How difficult it is to be at the service of life and respect it !
Jacques Gaillot