As you know there is a growing global movement to ban land mines. For Angolans, well, just imagine if you sent your children out to play, you would be afraid that one of your children would step on a mine. Something quite common in developing countries is that women and children go out to collect fire wood. And they typically go to forested areas, in other words, areas that haven't been walked upon much. And that is, of course, where someone is most likely to step on a mine.
Aid workers know where it's safe to go.
And we have a security policy that says you don't go where it's not safe to go or where a demining organization has warned us to keep out. However, there is always the danger of newly planted mines on roads that have been traveled before. So an area that might have been safe to travel before becomes unsafe. Presumably people were freer and comfortable to move about and not fear that they were going to lose their life or their limbs. You see amputees everywhere in every provincial town and in the capital, Luanda, you see amputees that have come from rural areas.