Mastodawn

'Protect civilians - keep landmines banned'
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-04-ban-landmines-europe-petition-EN/?t=8&utm_medium=email&utm_source=akmail-21346&utm_campaign=20260413_EN&akid=21346.744920.h8d5RR
#eu #landmines

Protect civilians - keep landmines banned

Landmines are coming back to Europe - quietly. Countries like Poland and Finland are moving toward producing and using them. Others could follow. These weapons don’t disappear after wars end - they keep killing people long after. We need to stop this dangerous rollback - before it spreads.

WeMove Europe

Luigi. 🇵🇸 🇮🇷 🇻🇪 🏴18h ago

#Vietnam #VietnamWar #USA #warCrimes #killToAmerica #USmarineCorps #USimperialism #landMines #fourthReichUSA #yankeesgohome #yankisdemierda #yankisasesinos #yankishijosdeputa

N-gated Hacker News 6d ago

Cambodia just immortalized a #rodent with a #statue, proving once and for all that sniffing out #landmines is the pinnacle of rat #achievement. 🎖️🐀 Apparently, humans are so desperate for heroes that even a rodent can get a monument. 🤔🏆
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo #Cambodia #Heroic #HackerNews #ngated

Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa

The statue honours the late African giant pouched rat who sniffed out more than 100 landmines during his lifetime.

Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Apr 6

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116357917815425827

It’s important to recognize the persistence and toxicity of war materiel from mid 20th century conflicts.

#Cambodia #landmines #Magawa

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Apr 6

#Magawa was a southern giant pouched #rat born at Sokoine University of Agriculture in #Tanzania in 2013

Magawa was trained by #APOPO, the #Belgium nonprofit that trains #rats and dogs to detect #mines

In #Cambodia Magawa became the most successful #landmine sniffing rat ever, clearing 23 hectares/56 acres, detecting 71 #landmines and 38 other explosives

Magawa died in 2022

On April 3, for International #Mine Awareness Day, Cambodia honored Magawa with a stone statue

https://cambodianess.com/article/cambodia-honors-mine-sniffing-rat-magawa-with-statue-in-siem-reap

Balkan Insight Apr 1

Sniffing for Danger: The Elite Dogs Hunting for Bosnia’s Buried Mines

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/04/01/sniffing-for-danger-the-elite-dogs-hunting-for-bosnias-buried-mines/bi/

Levka Mar 29

#Iran #landmines

"Iran images appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces, a first in years

The land mines were photographed outside Shiraz, a city located about three miles from one of several nearby Iranian ballistic missile sites.

Images posted to social media Thursday show what experts said are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran, in what appears to be the first instance in more than two decades of American forces using the weapons.

The photos show American BLU-91/B anti-tank land mines, which are released from an aircraft as part of the Gator mine scattering system, according to four munitions experts who reviewed the imagery at The Washington Post’s request. The United States is the only party in the Iran war known to possess the system.

The land mines were photographed outside the city of Shiraz, around three miles from one of several nearby Iranian ballistic missile sites. Mobile launchers are often positioned near such sites to access missiles, and the land mines could have been intended to make it more difficult to do so, experts said."

https://archive.ph/0OWTN#selection-177.0-195.31