Originally Posted by
212man
Our obligations? So a foreign country invades our territory, and fills it with mines, and then it's our obligation to clear up the mess afterwards?
The obligation is under the Ottawa Treaty, ratified in 1999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty
If you are interested in reading more about the operation to clear the mines, this article is very interesting, from 10 years ago when the clearance had not long started.
https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2010/...nds-de-mining/
(The article also confirms the accounts I had often heard, that although the minefields close to Stanley were well documented, the ones at Goose Green and on West Falkland had no records kept by the Argentineans, which is required by international protocols)