Afghanistan Quote by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt…

— Angelina Jolie

“At the time, we were told that this was also the area from which up to ninety-eight percent of the opium, and eventually heroin,…

— Nicholas Irving

Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but…

— Kofi Annan

And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are…

— Dick Cheney

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

— Jody Williams

Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has…

— Kofi Annan

You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of…

— Khaled Hosseini

The problem right now, which I've been pointing out very bluntly to American officials in Washington, is that the U.S. has no economic presence…

— Ahmed Rashid

I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground…

— Bob Corker

Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not know much,…

— Khaled Hosseini

“The regime's political strategy depends on planting landmines throughout society. But the mine doesn't explode if you place your leg on it - it…

— Anwar Al-Bunni