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Political Factoid
The 2011 budget deal cut
$14 million a year in funding
from the State Department program
that oversees land mine removal.
4,000 people are killed or maimed
each year (worldwide) by stepping on
unexploded land mines or cluster bombs
left over from previous conflicts.
The United States stopped making
land mines back in the 1990s, but
it is still a top exporter of cluster bombs.*
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