Word: antipersonnel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan after a 10-year struggle against native resistance slays this pet theory. The Soviets certainly did not scruple to wage total war. They burned villages, planted toy-shaped antipersonnel mines designed to maim children and indiscriminantly executed non-combatants. Estimates put the civilian death toll at more that one million...
...shelling intensifies and grows more accurate, however, the mujahedin who are not part of the gun crews decide to move to safer ground. They scamper west along the ridge, then start down the long, steep slopes, moving fast. One guerrilla is missing a foot, blown off by an antipersonnel mine a year ago. He moves as fast as the others, hopping nimbly with the aid of a walking stick...
...have used the new JP233 airfield attack bomb. The result of a collaboration between British and U.S. firms, the JP233 craters enemy runways by penetrating the concrete before exploding, causing the surface to lift and fracture over a wide area. The bomb also seeds the territory with delayed-action antipersonnel explosives...
...engulfed in the violence. Among the casualties were Photographers Susan Meiselas, 32, on assignment for TIME; John Hoagland, 33, working for Newsweek; and Ian Mates, 26, a South African cameraman for a London-based television organization. Their small Japanese car was the target of a remote-controlled Claymore-type antipersonnel mine on a road about 15 miles north of San Salvador. Mates suffered severe head wounds from steel splinters and died the next day in a local hospital. Meiselas and Hoagland were evacuated to the U.S. Later in the week another photographer on assignment for Newsweek, Olivier Rebbot...