SIEM REP, Cambodia -- Twelve-year-old Van Nak remembers like it was yesterday the force of the blast that took his right arm and his father. "It hit me here," he says tapping his chest with his only hand, "and knocked me over." Van was just 6 years old when he accidentally triggered a landmine near the Thai-Cambodian border while planting rice with his now deceased dad, one of the tens of thousands of victims of subterranean explosives that litter the countryside.
Cambodia’s Landmine Legacy Pervades Present
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