DeMining the landmines

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Saw a segment on NHK news.   It was about the many land mines still located around the world.

I saw a video of a young girl on crutches with only one leg, sad.  It looked like an Afghan girl.   

 

A middle aged, Cambodian man, Aki Ra, is helping to clear mines in Cambodia.  He especially is concentrating on areas around poor villages, their farmland.

The interesting story about the Cambodian man is:  When he was a child, he was raised by the Kymer Rouge.    He was given a weapon at age 10....and made to plant land mines!   

He said he had to do what he was told.   Now he is helping to undo part of what he was responsible for.   He is glad to help.   Following is his interesting story...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Ra

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In addition to deMining, he helps maimed children...

Excerpt from above link...

While working in these villages he found many injured and abandoned children. He brought them home to live with him and his wife Hourt. Some of the children who moved to their home were also street kids from Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. Eventually he brought home over two dozen boys and girls.^[9]

In early 2009, a boy came to live with Aki Ra and Hourt who had lost an arm and most of a hand to a cluster munition. He was working with his uncle in a field near Battambang, west of Siem Reap when he found an explosive probably left over from the Cambodian Civil War. Aki Ra found him in the hospital and told his family about the Museum. He now lives there and attends school. Today, 29 children live at the Cambodia Landmine Museum Relief Center.^[6] In the past they were mainly landmine victims, but now they also include children born without limbs, polio victims, and some with HIV; some are orphans and some have parents who cannot afford to raise them.^[16] Funds from the museum are entirely dedicated to the support of these children to feed them, clothe them, and send them to school.