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　　He says his story is no different from that of many Mozambicans. He lost his leg in the fighting when he was 22 years old. He says he was forced to stop school because, as the son of a farmer, he could no longer work to finance his education.

　　Luis Wamusse did not give up. Instead, he launched an organization to help other land mine victims. There are about 20,000 mine victims across Mozambique. Many are poor people, who live in rural areas and have no medical treatment to help them heal. Some turn tree branches into sticks to help them walk. Some never get to visit a hospital at all.

　　Mr. Wamusse says his organization meets landmine victims who are living with pieces of metal in their bodies. Doctors never performed operations on them because they have no way to get to the city to get help.

　　Disarming mines presents a major test in a country where floodwaters can displace landmines. Some of the mines date back not just to the civil war, but to the war against Portuguese colonial rule.

　　Alberto Augusto is the director of Mozambiques national de-mining agency. He says the government does not have maps that show where the mines are hidden.

　　As time goes on, accidents are increasingly rare. Last year, there were only four. All the victims were de-mining specialists.

　　With the help of foreign donors, 200,000 landmines have been disarmed. Mozambique hopes to be declared free of known landmines by the end of the year.