As he ran to her, she touched the object and the effect was explosive. Their mother heard the noise and ran with other villagers to her ailing children. They were transported to a nearby hospital, at which point both of Khadra's arms were amputated and both of her eyes were destroyed. Abdi lost four fingers and damaged one of his eyes. An anti-personnel land mine is an explosive weapon that is buried just below the surface of the ground.
Land mines detonate when pressure is applied in any way.
They cannot distinguish between the footfall of a soldier and that of a child. A permanent global ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of APLs is imperative to put a halt to this humanitarian crisis. In 1997, the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines hosted the Ottawa Convention in Canada for non-governmental organizations. Here, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, better known as the Ottawa treaty, was introduced to the leaders of several countries. The treaty states that countries in accordance with the treaty statutes would discontinue the production and stockpiling of anti-personnel land mines.