"Mine" means any ammunition placed under, on or near the ground or other surface area and designed to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person or vehicle. "Remotely-delivered mine" means a mine not directly emplaced but delivered by artillery, missile, rocket, mortar, or similar means, or dropped from an aircraft.  Mines may be anti-personnel or anti-vehicle. Current regulations prohibit or restrict the use of landmines, booby-traps or other devices. See also Weapons

 OUTLINE

Chapter 9, III. 2. c) certain conventional weapons aa) mines

 LEGAL SOURCE

CIHL, 80 (booby-traps) and 81-83 (landmines)

 DOCUMENTS

Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices, as amended on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II to the 1980 Convention)

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction

 CASES

 BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

Suggested readings:   CARNAHAN Burrus, “The Law of Land Mine Warfare: Protocol II to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons”, in Military Law Review, Vol. 105, 1984, p. 73-95.   CAUDERAY Gérald C., “Anti-Personnel Mines”, in IRRC, No. 295, July-August 1993, pp. 273-287.   MARESCA Louis & MASLEN Stuart (eds), The Banning of Anti-Personnel Landmines: The Legal Contribution of the International Committee of the Red Cross [1955-1999], Cambridge, CUP, 2000, 670 pp.   MASLEN Stuart, Anti-Personnel Mines under Humanitarian Law: A View from the Vanishing Point, Antwerp, Intersentia, Transnational Publishers, 2001, 327 pp.   MASLEN Stuart & HERBY Peter, “An International Ban on Anti-Personnel Mines: History and Negociation of the ‘Ottawa Treaty’”, in IRRC, No. 325, December 1998, pp. 693-713.   PETERS Ann, “Landmines in the 21st Century”, in International Relations, Vol. 13, 1996, pp. 37-50.   Further readings:   DOSWALD-BECK Louise & CAUDERAY Gérald C., “The Development of New Anti-Personnel Weapons”, in IRRC, No. 279, November-December 1990, pp. 565-577.   “Landmines Must be Stopped”, in ICRC, September 1995, 65 pp.