Halt Mine-Laying by India and Pakistan Now
Author/Origin: Human Rights Watch hrwdcSPAMFLTER@SPATMFLTERhrw.org |
(Wednesday 22 May 2002 New York) India and Pakistan should halt the use of antipersonnel landmines along their common border, Human Rights Watch urged today.
In a new backgrounder released today, Human Rights Watch, founding member of the ICBL, said that as part of the military buildup resulting from the December 13, 2001, attack on the Indian parliament, both India and Pakistan have emplaced large numbers of antipersonnel and antivehicle mines along their common border in one of the largest scale mine laying operations anywhere in the world since 1997, when the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty was opened for signature. Human Rights warned that the latest tensions could lead to additional mine-laying.
