The Cambodian Landmine Museum

Feb 11 – We took a tuk tuk to the museum today.  It was a bit of a drive in the countryside.  On the way back we stopped at a palm sugar stand and then went to the streets behind Pub Street for supper.

Today we went to the Cambodian Landmine Museum founded by Aki Ra.  Aki Ra first went to war by the age of ten, back then the adults used the children as bait, the adults put the kid in front in case of a landmine.  Aki Ra cleaned up around 50 000 landmines.  There are still about 3 to 6 million more landmines to be cleaned up in Cambodia.  1 in 300 people in Cambodia step on a landmine. – Sayer

Today we went to a landmine museum.  It was pretty cool, we saw a lot of landmines.  This guy named Aki Ra, he thinks he was born in 1970 but he doesn’t know for sure.  When he was 10 he was given his first gun and joined the Khmer Rouge army.  Aki Ra planted many landmines not knowing what they did.  Later in about 1987 he joined the Vietnamese army, he learned how to disarm landmines and has disarmed about 50,000 in Cambodia. In Cambodia it is estimated there are around 3 to 6 million landmines today.  Aki Ra made this museum and school. – Danika

 

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