{"id":419,"date":"2004-03-30T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=419"},"modified":"2007-08-18T13:23:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T18:23:35","slug":"war-without-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"War Without End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese businessman <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&amp;u=\/afp\/japan_landmines\">Kiyoshi Amemiya<\/a> has dedicated his life to building machinery that safely and efficiently removes landmines from war torn countries.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I saw women and children with missing arms and legs and many had severe facial burns. Although I knew nothing about landmines then, I was determined to do something about it&#8221;.? In 1995, Amemiya, president of Yamanashi Hitachi Construction Machinery, set up a six-member project team within the company to begin the development of a mine clearing machine.<\/p>\n<p>What they came up with was, essentially, a converted mechanical digger.? Amemiya said he made the mine clearer by adapting Hitachi Construction&#8217;s hydraulic excavator, putting a drum bristling with blades in place of the bucket on the hydraulic arm and strengthening the cab against blasts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/Mar04\/Nichols0327.htm\">Bob Nichols<\/a> examines the use and long-ranging effects of depleted uranium.  He mentions the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepowerhour.com\/articles\/du_effects.htm\">Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat<\/a>, Former Chief of the Naval Staff, India, and links to this report on the conference <a href=\"http:\/\/traprockpeace.org\/bhagwat_du_29feb04.pdf\">Dialogues With Decision Makers<\/a> (pdf) hosted by The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese businessman Kiyoshi Amemiya has dedicated his life to building machinery that safely and efficiently removes landmines from war torn countries. &#8220;I saw women and children with missing arms and legs and many had severe facial burns. Although I knew &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=419\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-6L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}