36岁的安哥拉妇女图塔在绵延的内战中惶惶然度过了18个年头后,还是未能逃脱厄运。她在去年5月的一天被炸掉了双腿。两个月后,她的妹妹玛丽亚又遭遇同一厄运。这对苦命姐妹从此丧失了劳动能力。使她们致残的祸手便是可恶的地雷。地雷是一种普通常规武器,它易于布设,杀伤力强。地雷布设后犹如张开了无形的杀伤之网,时刻等待着吞噬撞上它的牺牲品。典型的现代杀伤地雷貌不惊人,不过是一块1公斤左右重的塑料,一个巴掌大小, Tutta, a 36-year-old Angolan woman, failed to escape bad luck after 18 years of panic in the midst of a prolonged civil war. She was blown up on one day in May last year. Two months later, her sister Maria suffered the same doom. This pair of bitter sisters lost their ability to work. The culprit that cripples them is the damn mine. Landmines are a common conventional weapon that is easy to deploy and highly lethal. After the laying of the mines, it is like opening up an invisible network of killings, waiting for the victim to devour it. The typical modern anti-personnel mines are not surprising, but a piece of heavy plastic weighing about 1 kilogram, a palm size,