After identifying the forty-seven companies, Human Rights Watch sent each a letter informing them of our findings and calling on them to renounce voluntarily future involvement in antipersonnel landmine production. (See Appendix C). Thirty-four responded, with seventeen stating that they would commit themselves to no future involvement in antipersonnel landmine production. Many company representatives initially expressed surprise or denied involvement, but eventually acknowledged the validity of our evidence. Several companies took immediate steps to end their involvement when Human Rights Watch raised with them the humanitarian consequences of antipersonnel mine production. It does not appear that landmine activities constitute a significant portion of income for any U.S. company. The seventeen companies that have told Human Rights Watch that they will no longer be involved in antipersonnel landmine production are: ASC Capacitors (Nebraska), AVX Corp. (South Carolina), Compensated Devices, Inc. (Massachusetts), Dyno Nobel, Inc. (Utah), Hughes Aircraft (Virginia), Kalmus and Associates, Inc. (Illinois), Kemet Corp. (South Carolina), Mathews Associates, Inc. (Florida), MascoTech (Michigan), Microsemi Corp. (Arizona), Motorola, Inc. (Illinois), Olin Ordnance (Florida), Plastics Products Co., Inc., (Minnesota), S&K Electronics (Montana), Siliconix, Inc. (California), S W Electronics & Manufacturing Corp. (New Jersey), and TLSI, Inc. (New York). The decision by seventeen big and small companies to renounce future involvement in mine production is a landmark event in the movement to achieve a total antipersonnel mine ban in the U.S. Human Rights Watch will stay in touch with each company to monitor their new anti-mine codes of conduct.

4. Motorola company notice to employees, received by Human Rights Watch on July 17, 1996. 5. U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines Press Release, "Motorola: No More Components for Landmines," August 26, 1996.

Motorola was the first company to renounce publicly future involvement in antipersonnel mine production. In July 1996, Motorola stated: "We will do everything reasonably possible to make sure that Motorola does not knowingly sell any component part that is intended for use in an antipersonnel mine... (W)e believe that we have an obligation and a unique opportunity to proactively support the elimination of antipersonnel mines."4 Encouragingly, Motorola also took pains to think through how best to implement and to insure institutional fealty to the new policy. It drew up a forty-page internal company guideline and posted it to Motorola subsidiaries. The USCBL applauded Motorola's decision, saying, "Motorola has now emerged as the best kind of industry leader. They have set the standard and we hope other companies will follow suit. Motorola deserves high praise for its recognition of the humanitarian disaster caused by mines, and especially its willingness to act on its own to help stem the crisis."5

Seventeen companies declined to renounce future involvement in antipersonnel mine production. Company statements came from: AAI Corp. (Maryland), Allen-Bradley (Texas), Alliant Techsystems, Inc. (Minnesota), also representing mine producers Accudyne Corp. (Wisconsin), and Ferrulmatic, Inc. (New Jersey), CAPCO, Inc. (Colorado), Dale Electronics, Inc. (Nebraska), Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc. (Connecticut), General Electric Company (Connecticut), Lockheed Martin Corp. (Maryland), Mohawk Electrical Systems, Inc. (Delaware), Nomura Enterprise, Inc. (Illinois), Parlex Corp. (Massachusetts), Quantic Industries, Inc. (California), Raytheon (Massachusetts), Thiokol Corp. (Utah), and Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (Pennsylvania). Thirteen companies did not respond in writing to Human Rights Watch: Action Manufacturing Co. (Pennsylvania), Aerospace Design, Inc. (California), Amron Corp. (Wisconsin), BI Technologies (California), Consolidated Industries, Inc. (Alabama), Day & Zimmerman, Inc. (Pennsylvania), EMCO, Inc. (Alabama), Formworks Plastics, Inc. (California), Fort Belknap Industries (Montana), Intellitec (Florida), Mason & Hangar/Silas Mason Co., Inc. (Kentucky), Primetec, Inc. (Florida), Unitrode Corp. (New Hampshire).