Dar es Salaam, April 22 -- On April 4, the UN Human Rights Council unanimously and without a vote supported a resolution calling on countries to comply with the 1997 treaty banning the use of mines, to protect and ensure human rights.

The initiative was spearheaded by Algeria, which is most familiar with the effects of the mine threat.

However, 1956 through 1962, during the Algerian War of Independence, France laid 11 million mines along Algerias eastern and western borders.

“The anti-personnel mines left behind by French colonialism represent one of Algerias greatest humanitarian disasters. Buried under Algerian soil, these mines continued to kill and maim the local population even after the national liberation war,” ̵...