Landmines kill by weight, making peasants permanent indistinct enemies after wars end

Evidence

Peasants cannot tend their crops or flocks without moving through their land. But to the mine’s undiscerning eye, all movement is enemy movement: any human or other mammalian body above a certain weight is adjudged to be a body in uniform—personnel in need of blowing up. Long after the troops have returned home, long after a war’s soldiers have been demobilized, the landmine maintains its unblinking vigilance. It is there to do its duty—even if ten, twenty years too late, retaliating against an enemy as unspecific as humanity itself. These are not anti-personnel mines, they are anti-person mines. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 672

Categorization

• XREF: The delayed, weight-triggered lethality is a precise instance of precision’s death lag and slow violence’s temporal deferral cashed out mechanically. — connects to: Dud cluster bomblets become de facto landmines that wreck civilian life — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 683; Landmines were stigmatized while equally lethal cluster bombs escaped scrutiny as smart weapons — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 666; War damages persist for generations in bodies and land beyond official victory — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 585

Broader Connections

• Dud cluster bomblets become de facto landmines that wreck civilian life #expands (0.85) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 683
• War damages persist for generations in bodies and land beyond official victory #expands (0.85) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 585
• Landmines were stigmatized while equally lethal cluster bombs escaped scrutiny as smart weapons #exemplifies (0.80) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 666