Land mines: Explosive remnants of war

(CNN) -- She stands tall, two makeshift wooden crutches propping up her one-legged body in the same fields that took so much from her. She stares into the sun with a stern face, hardened by years of loss. Over the past 28 years, Requina Jimu lost her leg, a year later: her husband, and over the years to come: 11 of her 13 children. All innocent victims of land mines laid by Rhodesian forces in Mozambique in the 1970s. They're located worldwide, in backyards, in fields, incognito. Dubbed the "perfect little soldiers" by Khmer Rouge dictator Pol Pot, land mines are silent, usually obscured and always destructive. Read the rest at: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/26/world/land-mines-photography/index.html?iref=allsearch

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