Land Mines
While refugees are attempting to escape from the war happening in their home country, they begin a journey far away from the hurting and death. This fleeing journey can be even more dangerous and deathly than the wars happening in their own country. They must travel distance and risk sickness, hunger, and land mines.
These fleeing refugees risk their lives to flee from terrible danger but find themselves losing limbs and even dying from these land mines. It is a dangerous threat. Another nation may put up the land mines in order to kill the enemy but instead they are hurting citizens. Every twenty-two minutes, somewhere in the world, a person is killed or maimed by a land mine. Not only are there land mines during the journey for the refugees but they continue to exist everywhere in refugee camps, amongst the country, etc. Most refugee camps are unable to provide the care these victims need to stop the bleeding or any other trauma that occured.
"We stopped at a school next the the minefield. When the school was built by the government the area had not been cleared for mines. When HALO (A non-governmental organization working on clearing active land mines) checked the road the children took to school, they found five explosives just a step from where the kids were walking." -Angelina Jolie