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The sight of children and adults, walking the streets of Siem Reap with missing limbs is the trigger for taking us with the proposal to visit the cambodian Landmine Museum.
The museum is located on the main road from Siem Reap and 15-20 minutes drive from the tuk tuk from the town.
It was found that the estimates were up to 10 million landmines in the ground campaign in the first instance by the Cambodian Khmer Rouge regime have brought theirterrorist incident, and then the Vietnamese army in its fight against the Khmer Rouge. This practice has continued after the Vietnamese troops from Cambodia, with the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, with the same tactics against the remnants of the Khmer Rouge.
How many millions of landmines still present in the soil in Cambodia? You can not disable a service range of forecasts, but walking through the museum installation Mock garden with booby traps and mines, shows the danger thatexist. Even if visitors have said that the exhibits there are only a few would leave the garden without damage if you live mines.
The inspiration behind the museum and the center associated auxiliary Aki Ra. A former child soldier with the Khmer Rouge has presented his personal vision in a simple but powerful statement, "I want to be sure that my country for my people." In the case of most of the agricultural sector in Cambodia on hand depending on the risk of unexplodedMines are a constant threat to farm workers.
Its mission is to educate museum visitors about mines and unexploded ordnance on. The museum is off a major stock of mines and unexploded ordnance on display and a large collection of war material in the area around the Cambodian countryside found. One of the points is a 225kg bomb from an aircraft of the United States to war.
But the museum is only part of the vision of Aki Ra's. The plantalso supports a school and an orphanage for children who are survivors of landmine accidents, and the provision of a medical center for those who prosthetic rehabilitation.
Another part was the soldiers who live in demining activities in the structure.
As a non-governmental organization working Aki Ra's is supported by donors, both Cambodian and international. These include UNESCO and the Canadian government.
It 'strange that a man who spent his early years of plantof these weapons of destruction is now a leading lawyer in Cambodia deactivation of landmines.
However, remains the persistent problem: How many years will it take to innocent people in Cambodia are free of mutilating effects of landmines?
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