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India and landmines: India is not a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. India is mine-affected and a user and producer of antipersonnel mines. It also keeps a large stockpile of the weapon: at 4-5 million it has the fifth largest stockpile of the weapon in the world.
The list of civilians injured in one District of Ganganaar in Rajasthan state sent by our field researcher. (
See the attached list
). This is authentic record agreed by civil administration.There are more than 18 border districts of Rajasthan, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir and we can imagine, how many civilians victims shoud be?
Final Declaration from recently concluded Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting
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