A Mines Advisory Group (MAG) technician carefully pins a bounding fragmentation mine in Zaren village. Kurdistan/Iraq, 2003. Every year, landmines kill 15,000 to 20,000 people — most of them children, women and the elderly — and severely maim countless more. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, referred to as the 