It costs $3 to make a landmine, $1,000
to remove one. In Guinea Bissau, a tiny country on the West African
coast, they’re everywhere: the legacy of a twelve year struggle
for independence followed by civil war in 1999. I visited the country
with novelist Jonathan Coe. To read his article for the Guardian
magazine,click here.
Quinta
Nanque stepped on a landmine covered with leaves close to her home
during the country’s civil war in 1998. She has a prosthetic
leg but finds it too heavy to wear.
