News 2. Land Mines Cause Countless Tragedies

News 2. Land Mines Cause Countless Tragedies [WORDS] * landmine : n. 지뢰 * explode : v. 폭발하다, 폭파시키다 * orthopedic : a. 정형외과의 * go through : v. 겪다, 경험하다 * therapy : n. 치료(법) * blow off : v. 터뜨리다, 폭발로 없애다 * disable : v. 불구가 되게하다 * layer : n. 층, 쌓인 것 * shell : n. 포탄, 유탄 * mortar : n. 박격포 * round : n. 탄약의 1발 분 * explosive : n. 폭발물 * demine : v. 지뢰를 제거하다 * defuse : v. (폭탄의) 신관을 제거하다 * blow up : v. 폭파시키다 * limb : n. 사지(四肢), 팔다리 ================================================================================ There are so many problems facing any government in Afghanistan after twenty years of war, there are not many places in the country where Afghans can go with any guarantee of safety. There are, for one thing, millions of landmines and unexploded bombs. ABC's Bob Woodruff reports on this in Kabul tonight. It is one of the saddest places in the city, the Red Cross Orthopedic Center. Babies go through painful therapy. Children who've lost their legs learn to walk on new ones. Obadullah was just eight years old gathering wood by his house when an old Russian mine blew off his leg. Because Obadullah is still growing, every few months Dr. Alberto Cairo, the Italian director here, builds him a new leg. It is shaped and sculpted by Afghan men and women, many of whom are landmine victims themselves. Eighty thousand Afghans have been disabled by a mine. A British mine-clearing organization now employs twelve hundred people in Afghanistan. After twenty three years of war, sometimes they find layers of mines. They take them all to the mountains, along with tank shells and mortar rounds, lay them carefully in a hole and pack in explosives. Now a new problem, more than ten percent of the American bombs dropped on this country did not explode, and the demining teams don't have the training to defuse them. They can only blow them up. There are so many new mine victims in Afghanistan, the Red Cross now runs one of the busiest factories in the country. They can't make wooden limbs and wheel chairs fast enough. Bob Woodruff, ABCNEWS, Kabul.