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Interview transcripts, research notes, press cuttings and draft broadcast scripts relating to Landmines: Hidden Assassins , 1997. The documentary examined the threat of land mines; efforts to ban them including the campaign of the late Diana, Princess of Wales; the lives of land mine victims; the process of removing anti-personnel land mines; educating children on avoiding land mines; the debate over the United States of America's refusal to sign the Ottawa Treaty (Mine Ban Treaty), 1997; and the use of high-tech land mines. The report focused on Cambodia, one of the countries most affected by the use of land mines. The collection includes drafts of the script; transcripts of interviews with land mine experts including ordinary Cambodians affected by landmines; Ian Doucet, UK Working Group on Landmines (now Landmine Action UK); Steve Goose, Director of Human Rights Watch Arms Division; Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize winner 1997 and Campaign Ambassador, International Campaign to Ban Landmines; Bobby Muller, founder, Vietnam Veterans of America and co-founder International Campaign to Ban Landmines; Robert Cowles, Demining Office, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, Pentagon; Robert Bell, Special Assistant to President Clinton for National Security Affairs, 1993-1997; Colin King, international landmine and explosive ordnance disposal consultant; Ieng Moly, former Minister of Information, Cambodia; Dr Hans Winkler, Austrian State Secretary for Foreign Affairs; Ian Brown, aid worker, formerly of the Mines Advisory Group; and Paul Jefferson, former British mine disposal officer and freelance mine clearer severely wounded by a mine in Kuwait, 1991. Also research notes including background information on interviewees, anti-landmine campaign material, press cuttings, statistics, interviews and articles; schedules, lists of filming undertaken and lists of footage drawn from film archives.