A military question: why blow off the feet and the legs of innocent children?
Answer: because the cruelty of this has a dramatic effect on the populace. It makes them think. It is unsettling in a way that direct force is not. It is better to disable the enemy than kill him.
If a mine victim in Cambodia or Mozambique is asked the question "Who did this to you? Who laid the mine?" they will invariably say they don't know. The fact is that more than two thousand people are killed or maimed by these infernal machines every month.
Behind these numbers are individual human beings, with faces, families, stories, hopes and fears...