• ShepherdPie
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    1 month ago

    And western Europe and the Middle East

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      They’re referring to landmines, leftover from that region’s wars of the mid-20th century: America’s Vietnam & Cambodian war, French-Indochina war, Cambodian civil war, etc.

      The legacy of landmines and chemical warfare is still regularly killing, maiming, and causes significant increases in fetal birth defects and other rare illnesses.