Landmines are awful weapons that can demolish one’s regular life and turn it around upside down as many countries around the world have banned their use due to their high risk of potentially deliberate deadly accidents upon everyone including those who deployed them in the first place for military purposes during warfare. Because of their tendency to be indiscriminately triggered by any footstep even after so many years or even decades later, they are detonated by innocent people. Not to mention that landmines are banned under an international treaty.
As mentioned above, many countries have banned their use and joined the treaty while taking steps to eliminate landmines, there are still areas around the world that are affected by landmines and other explosive remnants of war. The landmines can be super devastating while effects civilians and limiting access to essential resources such as food, water, and medical care as transpired after ww1.
The treaty signed in 1999 also requires countries to destroy their existing stockpiles of anti-personnel mines and to clear mines from affected areas. Several countries haven’t cleared out those inhumane weapons in violation of that treaty. For instance, one of the most known landmine hellscapes is on the border of North Korea and Korea. Each year, several people die trying to escape the hermit kingdom. Cambodia is has a major problem with landmines, especially in rural areas. After the civil war there in the 1980s, 40k people lost limbs in Cambodia.
Now history repeats itself after Russia implanted these weapons and tossed them over certain parts of Ukrain including agricultural lands which obviously put the lives of many local farmers at high risk until they came up with ideas to stop the Russians from overtaking their country by using tractors to build trenches for modern trench warfare. They’ve used drones with explosives in order to drop right the bombs right inside the turret of tanks killing the entire crew inside.