Cambodian Landmine Museum - Siem Reap 2018
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Cambodia Landmine Museum, Siem Reap
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Kambodscha / Siem Reap - Cambodia Landmine Museum
The Museum is approximately 25 km north of Siem Reap, just 7km south of the Banteay Srey Temple complex. Hours: 0730 -- 1730 every day of the year! Entrance Fee: $3 for adults.
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Cambodia Landmine Museum, Siem Reap
Project Manager Bill Morse, talks about the ongoing situation of Cambodia's deadly legacy of unexploded UXO and the 5 million+ landmines that remain in the ground and continue to maim and kill rural Cambodians each month.
Aki Ra, Deminer and ex-child soldier of the Khmer Rouge established the landmine museum in 1997.
TripAdvisor Siem Reap Cambodia: Landmine Museum and Phare, the Cambodian Circus
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TripAdvisor visited Siem Reap, Cambodia (Asia's top Traveler's Choice destination in 2015) to visit two organizations using online travel review sites and social media to share their compelling stories in smart, innovative ways: Cambodia Landmine Museum and Phare, The Cambodian Circus.
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Cambodian Landmine Museum - Things to do in Siem Reap
The Cambodian Landmine Museum is a must-see place to visit when you come to Siem Reap, Cambodia. There are many things to do in Siem Reap, but if you want to learn about an organisation who is really helping Cambodians to escape their tragic past, then you must stop at the Landmine Museum.
The museum strives to educate their visitors about the importance of clearing mines. There are millions still in the ground and these mines continue to destroy families and communities.
The museum tells the story of Aki Ra who started clearing up landmines on his own.
Moreover, the museum also educates and supports more than two dozen Khmer children at their relief center (not open to the public) where they live on the property.
All proceeds go to running the relief centre and clearing up landmines.
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Aki Ra's Cambodian Landmine Museum (1999)
In 1999, I was in Cambodia filming a story about landmine survivors, when my crew and I came across this odd museum and its affable founder: Aki Ra.
It was my first project as a backpack VJ, and I was shooting on mini-DV tapes with Panasonic camcorder and wireless mics.
This is a recent edit of the footage with updated info about the landmine museum. In one scene, Aki Ra shows how to disarm a landmine.
More info on Aki Ra's landmine museum can be found at cambodialandminemuseum.org
Siem Reap - Angkor Wat - Landmine Museum - Cambodia
In Siem Reap we visited the famous Temple of Angkor Wat and the landmine Museum.
Landmine Museum, Siem Reap, Cambodia
just a short clip of the Museum in Siem Reap. Landmines are still a problem in Cambodia and Laos. Many young people lose a limb and deaths still occurs even after all these years. Such a shame. The fellla running this place was on CNN recently on their :Heros show. In addtiion to doing mine sweeping, he also has an orphan school behind this facility.
Cambodian Landmine Museum Near Siem Reap Cambodia August 2012
Tuk-tuk to Cambodian Landmine Museum and Relief Center
Ride in the tuk-tuk to go out the the Cambodian Landmine Museum and Relief Center outside Siem Reap
Aki Ra's Land Mine Museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia
Terry Hodgkinson aka wandering ninja takes some video shots of the old land mine museum in Seim Reap. Also there is a video shot of a memorial for the Cambodian victims who perished because of the Khmer Rouge in Siem Reap.
Walking around the land mind museum was a wake up call to just how dangerous certain parts of Cambodia still are. To learn of Aki Ra's life story was to learn about adversity at it's best and the will to survive no matter what. When I was there the land mind museum was nothng but a humble shack and now it's moved to a much better and bigger space to carry on Mr. Ra's message and good work. Plus it's set up as a refuge for children who have been hurt or maimed do to explosives they encountered. I have a lot of respect for Aki Ra and what he has done and continues to do! - Terry
Background:
Aki Ra is a former Khmer Rouge conscripted child soldier who works as a deminer and museum curator in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Aki Ra is unsure of his age, but believes he was born in 1970. His parents were killed by the Khmer Rouge. Orphaned in the Khmer Rouge camp, he was taken in by a woman named Yourn who raised him and several other orphaned children until he was conscripted into the Khmer Rouge army at about 10 years of age.
Mae Yourn (Mother Yourn), who lived and worked at the Cambodia Landmine Museum, died at the age of 66 in April 2010 from complications from diabetes.
Aki Ra fought for the Khmer Rouge until 1983 when he was captured by the Vietnamese. He was conscripted into the Vietnamese army on threat of his life while still a boy. He later served with the Cambodian army as a teenager and still later received landmine clearance training with the United Nations.
Having laid thousands of landmines as a soldier and working for the UN to remove them he discovered he was quite adept at clearing landmines and UXOs, and decided to make it his trade.
Having no demining tools, he used a knife, a Leatherman, and a stick. He would defuse the landmines and UXOs he found in small villages and bring home the empty casings. Sometimes he would sell them as scrap to help fund his work.
Tourists began hearing stories about a young Khmer man who cleared landmines with a stick and had a house full of defused ordinance. Aki Ra began charging a dollar to see his collection, using the money to help further his activities. Thus began the Cambodia Landmine Museum.
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.
While working in these villages he found many injured and abandoned children. He brought them home to live with he 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 had brought home over 2 dozen boys and girls.
The first child Aki Ra brought home was a 9-year old boy who had lost his leg to a landmine and was living on the street. His wife Hourt had no idea Aki Ra would be returning with the little boy, but when he returned home she took the child to her family and said Look, now I have a son.
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 Battambong, west of Siem Reap when he found the explosive that had probably lain undisturbed in the field for 25 years. Aki Ra found him in 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. Some are landmine victims, some were born without limbs, some are polio victims, one is HIV-positive, some are orphans and some have parents who cannot afford to raise them. Hourt and Aki Ra feed them, clothe them, send them to school.
In 2007 the Cambodian government ordered Aki Ra's museum closed. He was allowed to move it to a new location 40 kilometers from Siem Reap, near Banteay Srey Temple, inside the Angkor National Park. A Canadian NGO, the Cambodia Landmine Museum Relief Fund, founded by documentary film producer Richard Fitoussi, raised the money to buy the land and build the Museum. Most of the funding was provided by Tom Shadyac, a movie director from California.
The new museum opened in May 2007 and currently houses a 4 gallery museum as well as being the home to 27 children.
A movie about Aki Ra's life is being made. It will be called The Perfect Soldier.
Aki Ra's wife Hourt died on 15 April 2009. She had been ill and died in her sleep. She was 28 years old and left behind a legacy admired and honoured by all who knew her.
In July of 2010 Aki Ra was selected as a CNN Hero. In September he was chosen as a Top 10 CNN Hero for 2010. His story can be seen at:
Original Cambodian Landmines museum Seim Reap
Mr. Aki Ra a one time child soldier laid landmines for the Kymer Rouge and the Vietnamese. Once the conflict ended he has dedicated his life to remove them, Over the years it is said more than 50,000 have been disarmed many have ended up at his museum. He has been told to close down. He tells us why.
Places to see in Siem Reap, Cambodia - Cambodia Landmine Musuem
Cambodia Landmine museum is one of the places of interest in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
This video is a travel vlog from when I visited the place in June 2016.
LANDMINE MUSEUM SIEM REAP- CAMBODIA
LANDMINE MUSEUM SIEM REAP- CAMBODIA
Cambodian Landmine museum
Cambodian Landmine museum
The Cambodian Landmine Museum and Relief Facility is a museum located in Cambodia, south of the Banteay Srey Temple complex, 25 kilometers north of Siem Reap, and inside the Angkor National Park.
History
Tourists began hearing stories about a young Khmer man, Aki Ra, who cleared landmines with a stick and had a house full of defused ordnance. Ra began charging a dollar to see his collection, using the money to help further his activities. Thus began the Cambodia Landmine Museum.
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In 2007 the Cambodian government ordered Aki Ra’s museum closed. He was allowed to move it to a new location 40 kilometers from Siem Reap, near Banteay Srey Temple, inside the Angkor National Park. A Canadian NGO, the Cambodia Landmine Museum Relief Fund, founded by documentary film producer Richard Fitoussi, raised the money to buy the land and build the Museum. Most of the funding was provided by Tom Shadyac, a movie director from California.
The new museum opened in May 2007 and currently houses a 4 gallery museum as well as being the home to 27 children. The Cambodia Landmine Museum exists for 3 reasons:
To tell Aki Ra’s story
To tell the world about the horrors of landmines and explain that war is only half the problem. The aftermath of war continues long after the shooting stops.
To care for the children who live at the museum. More info visit:
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Cambodia War Museum Siem Reap 2018
I recently completed a 30 day trip around Asia,I vlogged the trip which you will see a link to after the links below that take you to all the places i visited and a dedicated playlist from these countries/cities...I hope you enjoy the journey.
PATTAYA ATTRACTIONS....
SIEM REAP ATTRACTIONS...
BANGKOK ATTRACTIONS...
KOH SAMUI ATTRACTIONS...
HUA HIN ATTRACTIONS...
HO CHI MINH CITY ATTRACTIONS...
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