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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Landmines still killing people, livestock in southeast region

"Landmines still killing people, livestock in southeast region

Thomas Grove

TUNCELI, TURKEY

29-Mar-07

SNOW turns red at the edge of Tunceli's mountain roads as it soaks up the bronze-rich soil. Passing that red line is a matter of life or death here, where violence has endured for 23 years.

Intense conflicts in the 90s and now sporadic violence between the military and Kurdish guerrillas have turned much of Turkey's rural southeast into a minefield."

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