Cambodia Landmine Museum
Battlefield relics and defused mines collected by a self-taught former child soldier turned deminer.
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This guide to the Cambodia Landmine Museum in Siem Reap follows Aki Ra, orphaned by the Khmer Rouge as a small child and turned into a soldier who once laid up to a thousand mines a day along the Thai border. It traces what happened when the fighting ended and he went back to those same villages, armed only with a knife, a hoe and a whittled stick, inventing his own method for pulling mines from ground he had once helped mine. The United Nations gave him a year of basic training starting in 1991, but once that contract ended he kept working alone.
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