Prince Harry stepped on Wednesday on the footsteps of his regretted mother, Princess Diana. While wore an antiglon vest, he went on a path in a field of active mines in Angola.
Prince Harry has gone through a field mined in Angola photo: The Halo Trust
The gesture of the Duke of Sussex was made in an action launched by a charitable organization to raise awareness of the unexploded ammunition during the war.
He is located in this country in southern Africa together with the Halo Trust organization, the same group that Princess Diana worked when she went to Angola in January 1997, seven months before being killed in a car accident in Paris. The images with her passing through a mining field have contributed to mobilizing support for a treaty for banning the ground mines that was signed later that year.
The images have been made around the world and generated a wave of support for the prohibition of antipersonal mines, however the challenges remain in many regions affected by conflicts.
Harry crossed a field mined near a village in Cesto Cuanavale, in the south of Angola, according to Halo Trust. This is not the first time he restored his mother’s steps after traveling to Angola for a similar sensitization campaign in 2019, reports AP.
“Children should not live with the fear of playing outside or going to school ”said Prince Harry.
The land mines in Angola remained after the civil war that lasted 27 years, from 1975 to 2002.
Halo Trust states that at least 60,000 people have been killed or injured by ground mines since 2008. The NGO states that it has located and destroyed over 120,000 ground mines and 100,000 other explosive devices in Angola since its activity in this country, in 1994, but another 1,000 mined fields must be cleaned.
