Anti-landmine school in Cambodia

October 31, 2006

Peace has returned to Cambodia after two decades of fighting, but villagers in some areas of the country are still waging war -- a war against landmines and unexploded ordinance which lie hidden forests and fields which still maim and even kill, scores of people every year. Men and women in Battambang province, which is known as the rice bowl of Cambodia, are training daily to disable mines at the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), an organization which was created in 1992 when the clean-up task stared, and currently has 2,400 deminers under its payroll.