land mine museum siem reap cambodia
this is video of one section of the land mine museum in siem reap cambodia, the picture of the guy on the wall is a former khmer rouge child soldier who laid mines as a child and now works to remove land mines he has removed around 50 thousand himself for a fraction of the cost of western mine removing companys
The Cambodia Land Mine Museum
I am fed up with Thai people who claimed wrongly about Cambodian army used landmine in Preah Vihear Temple. Preah Vihear Temple owned by Cambodia, what the Thai army doing in the Cambodia Preah Vihear Temple? Cambodia had war almost 30 years, what do Thai people expect from Cambodia? Thailand has no war, but the Thai Land Mine still found in Cambodia???
This video response to this Thai video claimed wrongly Cambodian Army used Land mine;
Former Khmer Rouge Child Soldier Has Spent the Last Two Decades Cleaning Cambodia of Mines, Alone an
Modern Cambodian hero Aki Ra has made it his life’s mission to rid his nation of land mines. The one-man army spends most of his day chopping vegetation in fields and delicately prodding the areas that set off his metal detector. More often than not, he uncovers hockey-puck sized antipersonnel land mines, and destroys them with a controlled explosion. “I want to make my country safe for my people,” he said.
There was a time when Cambodia was plagued by over six million land mines buried underground in paddy fields and lush jungles, ready to indiscriminately murder soldiers and innocent children alike. The devices were once used by the nation’s warring factions, including the notorious Khmer Rouge, to finish their enemies.
Aki Ra, who used to be a child soldier for Khmer Rouge, has spent over 22 years of his life single-handedly removing land mines that were left behind unexploded. Between 1992 and 2007, he was able to rid his homeland of a whopping 50,000 mines, armed with nothing but a pocket knife, pliers, a stick, and his bare hands.
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✈????When you are in Siem Reap,don't forget to see Akira museum!
✈????When you are in Siem Reap,don't forget to see Akira museum!
Aki Ra (sometimes written Akira) is a former Khmer Rouge conscripted child soldier who works as a deminer and museum curator in Siem Reap, Cambodia. He has devoted his life to removing landmines in Cambodia and to caring for young landmine victims. Aki Ra states that since 1992 he has personally removed and destroyed as many as 50,000 landmines, and is the founder of the Cambodian Landmine Museum.
Landmine clearing
Having laid thousands of landmines as a soldier, Aki Ra found employment as a deminer with the UN in 1991.[9] After leaving UNMAS in 1992, he continued disarming and removing mines in his community. Having no demining tools, he used a knife, a hoe, a Leatherman and a stick.[10] He would defuse the landmines and UXOs (Unexploded Ordnance) he found in small villages and bring home the empty casings. Sometimes he would sell them as scrap to help fund his work.[11]
Tourists began hearing stories about a young Khmer man who cleared landmines with a stick and had a house full of defused ordnance.[12] in 1999 Aki Ra began charging a dollar to see his collection, using the money to help further his activities.[13] Thus began the Cambodian Landmine Museum.[14]
Aki Ra cleared landmines where he had fought, when he heard about an accident, or when village chiefs and farmers would call him at the museum and tell him of mines in their villages and ask for his help.[15] He conducted informal mine risk education groups to teach people about the dangers of unexploded ordnance and landmines.[11]
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Aki Ra (sometimes written Akira) is a former Khmer Rouge conscripted child soldier who works as a deminer and museum curator in Siem Reap, Cambodia. He has devoted his life to removing landmines in Cambodia and to caring for young landmine victims. Aki Ra states that since 1992 he has personally removed and destroyed as many as 50,000 landmines, and is the founder of the Cambodian Landmine Museum.
Early life
Aki Ra is unsure of his age, but believes he was born in 1970 or 1973. His parents were killed by the Khmer Rouge. Orphaned in a Khmer Rouge camp, he was taken in by a woman named Yourn who raised him and several other orphaned children. Like many others, he soon became a child soldier once his strength became sufficient to make him useful to local Khmer Rouge military commanders. When the Vietnamese army invaded Cambodia with the intention of toppling the Khmer Rouge political regime, he was taken into the custody of Vietnamese soldiers.Later he enlisted with the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces formed by the new government, the People's Republic of Kampuchea. His duties included placing landmines along the mined area on Cambodia's border with Thailand. The name Aki Ra was given to him by a Japanese acquaintance and is not his birth name. He was born Eoun Yeak, but one of his supervisors once compared his efficiency to AKIRA, a heavy-duty appliance company in Japan.
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CAMBODIA: EX SOLDIER DEDICATED TO BANNING LANDMINES
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As a soldier in Cambodia fifteen years ago, Tun Channareth literally made one bad move.
A land mine destroyed both his legs and almost killed him.
But the 37 year-old has gone on to find a new life as an anti-land mines campaigner, dedicated to banning the devices which nearly killed him - along with more than a thousand civilians in Cambodia every year.
In a workshop in Northern Cambodia, Tun Channareth turns his skills to helping those who, like him, have become victims of war.
It's estimated that up to ten (m) million mines lie hidden in Cambodian soil, killing or maiming up to a hundred people every month.
Channareth's own story began in 1982.
He'd just joined one of this country's many armies when he stepped on a mine near the Thai border.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
After the doctor cut my leg and then I was lost. I tried to kill myself every time, but the doctor and the medics told me that you need to go and buy...you know....I was thinking about my future and my life.
SUPER CAPTION: Tun Channareth, Anti-landmines Campaigner
It was his family that saved him.
Now father to six children, it was hearing one of them call him papa, he says, that gave him reason to live.
That, and the campaign to ban land mines.
Since joining the campaign, he's travelled the world and met leaders to try to win their backing - from the Vatican, to London's Downing Street, to the home of the Queen of Spain.
All the time his thoughts are for those who have suffered, and for those who are still at risk.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
I don't want to see them lose limbs like me, like my friends, the disabled. I want them to find a job, can find everything if they can.
SUPER CAPTION: Tun Channareth, Anti-landmines Campaigner
The 37 year-old's devotion goes far beyond campaigning.
Not only does he make wheelchairs with his friend, who's also a mine victim - Channareth takes them into the villages and delivers them to the needy.
His role as a care worker for the disabled brings him into direct contact with the problems of Cambodia - not just mines, but disease too.
It helps him feel he's making a difference, but he knows the real difference must be made by world leaders.
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I beg them to have in my country de-mining. Stop producing mines, don't the lay mines, please help us. Not only my country, but Afghanistan, Mozambique, Angola - many, many countries that have had war for a long time.
SUPER CAPTION: Tun Channareth, Anti-landmines Campaigner
Even now, war still divides this troubled land, and fresh mines continue to be laid in Cambodia, just north of Channareth's home town of Siem Reap.
But for Channareth the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to anti-landmine campaigners in November, has provided some hope that one day the deadly devices will be banned.
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1. Mid shot of a mountain of shoes and a red sign that aware people about land mines
2. Mid shot of mountain of shoes that symbolizes the victims of land mines in the country
3. Mid shot of victims of land mines at the event
4. Mid shot of a man who lost their two legs with a land mine wearing prosthesis
5. Mid shot of student with a placard that says No more land mines
6. Various of students holding placards that say No more land mines
7. Various of people attending to a concert for the victims of land mines
8. Mid shot of singers holding placards that say No more land mines
9. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Luz Piedad Herrera, Director of the Land Mine Observatory:
The place Colombia occupies regarding the victims of land mines changes from the first to the second and third. Colombia occupies the first place because in 2005 Angola and Afghanistan that were the countries more affected had 800 to 900 victims and Colombia had 1077 so there are a lot of analysts who say that were are leading with the first place but any way, first, second and third place the drama of a victim is just the same, they lose their legs, they lose their hope so what we really need is to be the fist to fight this problem
10. Mid shot of a red sign that says Danger, Mines, Do not enter and soldiers standing behind 11. Various of different kinds of land mines
12. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Sharon Ball, UN delegate of Mine Action Service:
What worries us as UNICEF is the impact of those explosives in civilians, specifically in women and children. Last year with the high rate that Colombia has worldwide there were 1060 victims, 37 of them were civilians and have of it were women and children
13. Various of different kind of land mines and soldiers standing close to it
14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Edgar Moreno, Land Mine Victim:
I was working at a cattle ranch and I was heading the cattle back to the ranch when I was opening the door for the cattle to go in I step on a land mine and it blew up my left leg
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15. Various of victims of land mines at the hospital
16. Mid shot of victim of land mines being taken off the plane
17. Mid shot of victim of land mine at the hospital
18. Mid shot of boy victim of a land mine walking around a land mine
19. Various of land mines going off
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While some countries have made strides toward removing land mines placed in conflicts past, Colombia is struggling with a proliferation of the deadly bombs.
As a result, the country is confronting record numbers of casualties, both civilian and military, stemming from the four-decade civil war.
Statistically, antipersonnel mines have caused more casualties in Colombia than all but three other countries, according to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Today, Colombia has set word''s record number on land mines victims with 1077 according to The Colombian government''s Land Mines Observatory and said the number was more than in any other country. One quarter of these incidents resulted in deaths.
Colombia has been hit hard by land mines and the damage they inflict.
The government blames leftist rebels for planting most of the mines scattered across the country, and the number of those falling victim to them is increasing.
Land mines are perhaps the perfect embodiment of Colombia''s civil war, a mechanism designed to kill and maim that draws no distinction between armed combatant and innocent civilian.
FARC has largely rejected peace entreaties, declaring as recently as January that it would never negotiate with the government of President Alvaro Uribe.
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