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It is my strong belief that mines, which may be exploded by the presence or proximity of a person, are morally unacceptable. I fully support the convention on the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, transfer and production on anti-personnel mines and on their destruction.
Through their signature, governments promise to officially adopt and ratify the Ottawa Treaty and to comply with all of its terms. These include support for global demining work and assistance for mine victims. Through my signature on the People's treaty, I commit to working to ensure that governments keep these promises.
3956 people have signed the treaty.
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Name: Rochelle Bakels
Organisation:
UWC SEA
Country:
Singapore,
City:
Singapore
,
Singapore
Age:
13
Comment:
Thursday June 2, 2005 - 03:18
When it comes to landmines it's a very big issue. During a war landmindes are planted in the ground. Some soldiers step on them lose limb/libs or die. But when the war is over, not all the landmines have been steped on so they are still untouched. 10,000 kids under the age of 15 die each year by steping on landmindes. A lot of kids who are playing in fields don't see the landmines. They might be running or playing and they step on one. They maybe lose limb/limbs or they don't survive the blow. I think the government should do something about this. I think the government should secure the places whith signs or anything that makes people stop going to the places that have landmindes planted. |
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Name: Yuta Shinozaki
Organisation:
UWCSEA
Country:
Singapore,
City:
Singapore
Age:
14
Comment:
Thursday June 2, 2005 - 03:18
I think the state of landmines are horrible.<br>They should really ban them from the world, but this is not happening. The best way is to stop doing war against each other. I don't know why war is so necessary. We should talk it over than just fight. |
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Name: Hans-Martin
Organisation:
UWCSEA
Country:
Singapore,
City:
Singapore
Age:
14
Comment:
Thursday June 2, 2005 - 03:06
I think that not only the use of landmines should be stopped, but the world should becomme a peacfull place, where no wars are going on. This way landmines woulden't even be used. |
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Name: david
Country:
singapore,
City:
singapore
,
singapore
Age:
14
Comment:
Thursday June 2, 2005 - 03:06
10,000 kids under 15 years old dies from landmines every year. A lot of kids can step on a landmine while they're playing tag or hide&seek! A kid so happy, running around on the field and just for stepping on a piece of metal and they lose their leg or even die? It won't be fair for the kids... They were'nt the ones who started the war... were they? |
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Name: Taewoo Han
Organisation:
UWCSEA
Country:
Singapore,
City:
Singapore
,
Singapore
Age:
14
Comment:
Thursday June 2, 2005 - 03:04
People these days, arent aware of the promblems that kills thousands of innocent people daily just by landmine explosion. I argue that the goverment should do something about it and aid the people in danger. |
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Name: yorben muller
Organisation:
UWCSEA
Country:
singapore,
City:
singapore
Age:
14
Comment:
Thursday June 2, 2005 - 03:01
last english lesson we learned some of the appaling facts about landmines, i find that the use of landmines should definatly be dicontinued. if you would die, ok, your life is over, period. if you are incapacitated by a landmine and have to continue life without a limb or two(or worse), to me that would seem far worse.<br>how come the so-called geniusses that invented these things forgot what to do when the war is over??<br>yorben |
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Name: Gina Yoo
Organisation:
UWCSEA
Country:
Singapore,
City:
Singapore
Age:
14
Comment:
Thursday June 2, 2005 - 03:01
I think it is time to stop using landmines, landmines only kill innocent people! |
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Name: yorben muller
Organisation:
UWCSEA
Country:
singapore,
City:
singapore
Age:
14
Comment:
Thursday June 2, 2005 - 03:00
last english lesson we learned some of the appaling facts about landmines, i find that the use of landmines should definatly be dicontinued. if you would die, ok, your life is over, period. if you are incapacitated by a landmine and have to continue life without a limb or two(or worse), to me that would seem far worse.<br>how come the so-called geniusses that invented these things forgot what to do when the war is over??<br>yorben |
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Name: Myrthe Boekhorst
Country:
Singapore,
City:
Singapore
Age:
13
Comment:
Thursday June 2, 2005 - 03:00
So many people have died or lost limbs because of landmines, i think it is now time to stop using them! |
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Name: Maxine van Grootel
Country:
Singapore,
City:
Singapore
Age:
13 |
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Name: Natasha Tassell
Country:
New Zealand,
City:
Palmerston North
Age:
26
Comment:
Wednesday June 1, 2005 - 22:12
It is sad that we as human beings, create the means to hurt, mame, and kill each other... |
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Name: Devin Malone
Country:
U.S.A.,
City:
Minnetonka
,
Minnesota
Age:
22 |
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Name: Anita Dwyer
Country:
Australia,
City:
Canberra
Age:
28 |
|
Name: Sheri Kurisu
Country:
U.S.A.,
City:
Santa Cruz
,
CA
Age:
20 |
|
Name: Jess Bye
Country:
Australia,
City:
Melbourne
Age:
15 |
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Name: Sean O'Sullivan
Country:
Ireland,
City:
Skibbereen
,
Co. Cork
Age:
25 |
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Name: Stefanie Materniak
Country:
Canada,
City:
Saint John
,
NB
Age:
24
Comment:
Friday May 27, 2005 - 00:07
Too many people have suffered, its time to stop the suffering now. |
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Name: sam middlewood
Country:
england,
City:
beds
Age:
18
Comment:
Thursday May 26, 2005 - 12:06
it is ourageous that innocent poeple are dying! please put more work into clearing the mines, and ban them for a new future. |
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Name: Michael Bernard
Organisation:
Student
Country:
USA,
City:
Minneapolis
,
MN
Age:
28
Comment:
Wednesday May 25, 2005 - 17:06
Please, Please, Please discontinue use of all landmines and work to dispose of mines already in the ground! |
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Name: Kiely McFarlane
Country:
New Zealand,
City:
Auckland
Age:
16
Comment:
Wednesday May 25, 2005 - 05:10
I am disgusted that in this supposedly civilised world, the cruelty of land mines is allowed to live on. Land mine use must be stopped if we are to have any hope in the compassion of human beings, for peace, and for our survival! |
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Name: moira mccaul
Country:
Australia,
City:
Adelaide
,
South Australia
Age:
44
Comment:
Monday May 23, 2005 - 09:58
My 9 year old daughter ( with her questions and with her outrage that such things should be happening in the world) reminded me today how important it is to make a stand and be active in working to make the world a better place for all. We will join our local branch of the international campaign to ban landmines. |
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Name: Muddy Jones
Country:
Australia,
City:
Brisbane
,
Queensland
Age:
42
Comment:
Sunday May 22, 2005 - 23:46
How brilliant of man to use such wonderful imagination and scientific knowledge to devise a weapon that will continue to kill & maim unsuspecting innocence 30 yrs after it has been laid. What is wrong with us? There is absolutely no excuse for the use let alone continued manufacture of such an evil product.It's that simple. Get angry, demand action! |
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Name: Sibeal de Bhulbh
Country:
Ireland,
City:
Limerick
,
Limerick
Age:
41 |
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Name: Patricia Stevenson
Country:
USA,
City:
Oxford
,
OH
Age:
51
Comment:
Sunday May 22, 2005 - 21:57
I will work to convince manufacturers of landmines to stop production, USA government to get wise and support the ban on landmines, and USA military to destroy their stockpiles of landmines and never use them again! |
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Name: John Bachellor
Organisation:
Personal
Country:
USA,
City:
La Honda
,
CA
Age:
55 |
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Name: Grainne Gilmore
Country:
Ireland,
City:
Tuam
Age:
16 |
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Name: Hali McIlrath
Country:
England,
City:
Warwick
Age:
34
Comment:
Friday May 20, 2005 - 18:58
If war, and weapons, really were a solution to the problems faced by peoples of the world, then the hundreds of thousands of conflicts throughout history should have made peace a living reality long before now. In point of fact, they solve nothing, and the blood of every generation's children still soak the battlefields. We must demand the implimentation of peaceful means, and a cessation of the tacit approval given by so-called civilised nations for the use of violence and weapondry that target the innocent and guilty indiscriminantly. |
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Name: Marilyn Clark-Murphy
Country:
Australia,
City:
Perth
,
Western Australia
Age:
53 |
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Name: Sonja Lind
Country:
South Korea,
City:
Nowon Gu
,
Seoul
Age:
25 |
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Name: Katie Slee
Country:
Australia,
City:
Kirwan
,
Qld
Age:
25
Comment:
Thursday May 19, 2005 - 00:17
The governments need to start doing their bit to bringing and end to the use of landmines in current warfare and in assisting to destroy those already planted. The destruction they cause is horrific. |
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Name: melissa sabatier
Country:
france,
City:
sourcieux
Age:
27
Comment:
Wednesday May 18, 2005 - 19:20
Habbouba: I just found the website, the initiative is great and the <br>website very attractive.<br>Congratulation and please go on...<br>cheers<br>melissa |
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Name: Stacey Martin
Organisation:
Brandeis University
Country:
USA,
City:
Waltham
,
Massachusetts
Age:
32 |
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Name: David Bezanson
Organisation:
none
Country:
USA,
City:
Honolulu
,
HI
Age:
55
Comment:
Monday May 16, 2005 - 03:47
Mines and any type of nuclear weaponry are the top<br>priorities for global multilateral disarmament. |
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Name: Susan Cochrane
Country:
Canada,
City:
Moberly Lake
,
British Columbia
Age:
35
Comment:
Sunday May 15, 2005 - 22:54
I can't possibly imagine the horror of living with landmines. We have to obliterate them from the planet! |
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Name: Narcisse Lokwa Mbunzama
Organisation:
INFOGROUPE INTERNATIONAL
Country:
EMOCRATIC REPUBLIC,
City:
KINSHASA
,
KINSHASA
Age:
27
Comment:
Saturday May 14, 2005 - 13:46
We must work hard to bring the change in our community, admittly our different countries and continents are affected by the war, diseases, poverty,etc.<br>However, our combat is the way to resolve this problem.<br>by joining our strength, values, ideas and initiative we can found a solution to this situation. |
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Name: John White Jr.
Country:
USA,
City:
Lawrenceville
,
NJ
Age:
16 |
|
Name: Matt Walley
Country:
United States,
City:
Willimantic
,
Connecticut
Age:
19
Comment:
Tuesday May 10, 2005 - 07:34
These things need to be stopped, people my age should not be forced to deal with the loss of limbs if it can be avoided! Get involved! |
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Name: Ben Geisler
Country:
USA,
City:
Boise
Age:
23
Comment:
Monday May 9, 2005 - 11:48
If you ever doubt the reality of landmines, visit Cambodia. They are -very- real. |
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Name: Asma Fakhri
Organisation:
Mental Health International
Country:
Canada,
City:
Montreal
,
Quebec
Age:
26 |
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Name: Justin Turkus
Country:
USA,
City:
Haverford
,
PA
Age:
19 |
|
Name: Prabin Chitrakar
Organisation:
Nepal Campaign to Ban Landmines (NCBL)
Country:
Nepal,
City:
Kathmandu
Age:
28 |
|
Name: Giorgia Simoncelli
Country:
Italia,
City:
Trento
Age:
18
Comment:
Thursday May 5, 2005 - 22:27
Because we must open our eyes and realize other people's suffering... |
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Name: Amanda Russell
Country:
united states,
City:
bowling green
,
oh
Age:
24 |
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Name: Linda Nguyen
Country:
Canada,
City:
Brampton
Age:
16
Comment:
Wednesday May 4, 2005 - 22:08
no more land mines! =) |
|
Name: Egle Navickaite
Country:
Lithuania,
City:
Vilnius
Age:
21 |
|
Name: JCCM Fioole
Country:
Netherlands,
City:
Zierikzee
Age:
21 |
|
Name: Julie Paterson
Organisation:
?????
Country:
australia,
City:
melbourne
,
victoria
Age:
34
Comment:
Sunday May 1, 2005 - 10:45
all companies that foster the manufacture of not just landmines but all forms of explosives should be boycotted and their names made transperant and easily accessible for people to make an informed choice by not purchasing these companies products. the human rights website provides lists of which companies make what kind of bombs, explosives etc., et al. i wish well all those who continue to demine in the world and all those who have suffered immeasurable cruelty. |
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Name: Morgan Wilson
Country:
USA,
City:
Cambridge
,
MA
Age:
36 |
|
Name: Katie Danyo
Country:
USA,
City:
Washington
,
DC
Age:
22 |
|
Name: tim dellas
Country:
us,
City:
eureka
,
ca
Age:
48
Comment:
Wednesday April 27, 2005 - 21:10
If we are evolving as a species, surely the continued use of landmines is evidence to the contrary. Better yet ban all wars NOW! |
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Name: Ravi R.. Prasad
Country:
Sri Lanka,
City:
Colombo
Age:
41
Comment:
Wednesday April 27, 2005 - 08:29
I have seen and reported on the devastation caused by the landmines, especially to children and women. |
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Name: Peter Crosby
Country:
USA,
City:
San Francisco
,
CA
Age:
49 |
|
Name: Bedard Stella
Country:
Canada,
City:
Qualicum Beach
Age:
74 |
|
Name: Blaine Krumpe
Country:
US,
City:
Moscow
,
ID
Age:
19
Comment:
Tuesday April 26, 2005 - 06:48
The world needs more people of Jody Williams's charachter. |
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Name: Cheryl Carr
Organisation:
Bethune Collegiate
Country:
Canada,
City:
Toronto
,
Ontario
Age:
51 |
|
Name: zaher mansour
Country:
beyrouth,
City:
lebanon
,
beyrouth
Age:
22
Comment:
Saturday April 23, 2005 - 11:46
inna al algham hia min soun3 achaytan |
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Name: Ivana Sevic
Country:
Canada,
City:
Tronto
Age:
20
Comment:
Friday April 22, 2005 - 17:51
"Ask them not to hide the sun with their planes and not shatter our dreams with bombs.Children are born to dream."<br>Being a preson that lived through civil war i can relate to the fear of steping on a landmine and losing part of my body or my life. Doing anything i can to raise awareness, especially to the children, about landimes. |
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Name: Alan Egan
Country:
Spain,
City:
León
Age:
36
Comment:
Friday April 22, 2005 - 01:14
There is no shame greater than leaving defenseless civilians at the mercy of cheapo death and destruction. The innocent should not have to suffer the consequences of a war that happened before they were born. No to landmines, no to indifference! |
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Name: Kenneth Janosko
Country:
United States,
City:
PIttsburgh
,
PA
Age:
20 |
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Name: Adnane Bel Hamdounia
Country:
USA,
City:
Latrobe
,
PA
Age:
19
Comment:
Thursday April 21, 2005 - 18:34
Landmines are responsible for the pain and grief of millions of men, women, and children around the world.<br>We must stop this barbaric killer. We must put an end to landmines, and save our men, women, and children. Thank you. |
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Name: Richard Biggs
Country:
UK,
City:
Edinburgh
Age:
27 |
|
Name: Genevieve Mari
Organisation:
Graduate Student
Country:
Canada,
City:
Montreal
,
Quebec
Age:
28
Comment:
Wednesday April 20, 2005 - 03:20
Stop the landmines, there is no use for them! |
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Name: Rachel Jensen
Country:
USA,
City:
Decorah
,
Iowa
Age:
21 |
|
Name: Hind Mohammed
Country:
Algeria,
City:
Alger
Age:
21 |
|
Name: Jennifer Harwood
Country:
Canada,
City:
Edmonton
,
AB
Age:
23
Comment:
Monday April 18, 2005 - 16:27
No more landmines! |
|
Name: Carmel Harkin
Country:
Ireland,
City:
Dublin
Age:
60 |
|
Name: Hugh Harkin
Country:
Ireland,
City:
Dublin
Age:
23 |
|
Name: John O'Brien
Country:
Ireland,
City:
Dublin
Age:
39 |
|
Name: Kurt Phillips
Country:
Canada,
City:
Drumheller
,
AB
Age:
28 |
|
Name: Maria Broschi
Country:
USA,
City:
Norfolk
,
Virginia
Age:
38
Comment:
Saturday April 16, 2005 - 15:20
When will enough be enough? We must strive more for peace and diplomacy if we are to end the horrors of war, including the use of landmines. |
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Name: parviz Behrouzi
Country:
Canada,
City:
Vancouver
,
B.C.
Age:
47
Comment:
Thursday April 14, 2005 - 04:44
I beieve that all the mines should be removed and government should stop using this deadjy weapon and stop manufacturing of mines and ban the sale of this type of weapon through United Nation Resolusion. Charge the person responsible for Production ,sale and use of mines with crime against humanity. Finally good people with good heart should stand and stop the crulty of a few and their greed in making money by killing and hurting the innocents |
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Name: Judith Ditzel
Country:
Switzerland,
City:
Zürich
Age:
48 |
|
Name: Karina Simonson
Country:
Lithuania,
City:
Vilnius
Age:
24 |
|
Name: Angela Viano
Country:
Italy,
City:
Milano
Age:
39 |
|
Name: Steven Brennan
Country:
Canada,
City:
St. Albert
,
AB
Age:
22 |
|
Name: Janis Grychowski
Country:
Canada,
City:
Ottawa
Age:
26 |
|
Name: Alonso Violaine
Country:
Belgique,
City:
Bure
,
de grupont
Age:
15 |
|
Name: Joanna Lyons
Country:
UK,
City:
Southampton
Age:
23 |
|
Name: Gina Henderson
Country:
USA,
City:
Rocklin
,
CA
Age:
37
Comment:
Wednesday April 6, 2005 - 18:53
Please do all you can to end the use of landmines. |
|
Name: Amanda Dainow
Country:
Canada,
City:
Halifax
,
NS
Age:
20
Comment:
Tuesday April 5, 2005 - 16:02
There is no question or debate about it-landmines are some of the most dangerous and lethal weapons in existence-and it is most often children who are killed by them-they never should have been invented in the first place-what kind of sick minds wage genocide against the innocent? BAN LAND MINES NOW AND ALWAYS! |
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Name: Melissa Sutherland
Organisation:
Concern Worldwide
Country:
UK,
City:
Glasgow
Age:
32 |
|
Name: Ana Isabel
Country:
Portugal,
City:
Lisboa
Age:
40 |
|
Name: Sandra Martins
Country:
portugal,
City:
lisbon
Age:
31 |
|
Name: Brittany Roat
Country:
USA,
City:
Evansville
,
IN
Age:
17 |
|
Name: chenille samson
Country:
can,
City:
hlx
,
ns
Age:
24 |
|
Name: Candace
Country:
Canada,
City:
Halifax
Age:
23
Comment:
Monday April 4, 2005 - 18:16
Land mines- mother, fother, brother, sister, innocent people and animals, suffering, DEATH. |
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Name: Ana Fernandez Frank
Country:
USA,
City:
Boulder
,
CO
Age:
31 |
|
Name: Vasco Calais Pedro
Organisation:
Carnegie Mellon University
Country:
USA,
City:
Pittsburgh
,
PA
Age:
28 |
|
Name: Jorge Medeira
Country:
Portugal,
City:
Lisbon
Age:
29 |
|
Name: Ray Kemp
Organisation:
UWIC Business School
Country:
Wales,
City:
Cardiff
Age:
54 |
|
Name: Luis Carrasqueiro
Country:
United Kingdom,
City:
London
Age:
33 |
|
Name: Susana Serrão
Country:
Portugal,
City:
Lisboa
Age:
35 |
|
Name: Paula Hong
Country:
Portugal,
City:
Porto
Age:
31 |
|
Name: Mike McCleary
Country:
UK,
City:
Manchester
Age:
44 |
|
Name: Maria Calais Pedro
Country:
USA,
City:
Pittsburgh
,
PA
Age:
31 |
|
Name: Gabrielle Karsai
Country:
Australia,
City:
Sydney
,
NSW
Age:
44 |
|
Name: Carol Murphy
Country:
Ireland,
City:
Cork
Age:
15 |
|
Name: Paul Mc Cleary
Country:
Ireland,
City:
Dublin
Age:
36 |
|
Name: Anna Marie Mc Cleary
Country:
Ireland,
City:
Monaghan town
,
Ulster
Age:
30
Comment:
Friday April 1, 2005 - 21:48
I want to help in my own small way to stop the killing and maiming of innocent people by landmines |
|
Name: Saskia de Groot
Organisation:
The Interlink Group
Country:
USA,
City:
Torrance
,
CA
Age:
46 |
