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Still Digging Up UXOs in Cambodia

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Cambodia News (Preah Vihear): On April 3, 2020, at 7:40 am, a 26-year-old man, Rum Run, found bombs in a pit in Bak Kang village, Preah Vihear. The man did not touch them and reported the find to the police.

The police found the bombs such as 15 CR167 (37mm), 1 B40 (40/70 mm), and another bomb (60 mm). They were removed from the scene by the CSHD organization.
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Not "bombs", probably RPG, or maybe anti aircraft shells.
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"North Vietnam acquired more than 2,000 37mm M38/39 anti-aircraft guns from the Soviet Union and another 300 to 500 of the Chinese variant. Introduced in 1938, the M38/39 was the Soviet Union’s primary AAA weapon in World War II."
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SternAAlbifrons wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:33 am Not "bombs", probably RPG, or maybe anti aircraft shells.
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"North Vietnam acquired more than 2,000 37mm M38/39 anti-aircraft guns from the Soviet Union and another 300 to 500 of the Chinese variant. Introduced in 1938, the M38/39 was the Soviet Union’s primary AAA weapon in World War II."
Spare a thought for such organisations who I rarely see any comment, for the people who work help and train/clear these buried life destructing weapons of past wars and conflicts.

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The Coronavirus pandemic has created an unprecedented challenge across the world that will undoubtedly have a huge impact on HALO and our life-saving work. But we stand ready to provide our logistical and organisational expertise to serve the broader humanitarian need caused by COVID-19 in the countries where we operate.
In HALO’s thirty-year history we have faced many difficult challenges. Established as the Hazardous Area Life-support Organisation, we have brought our skills and expertise to support vulnerable families across the world in times of crisis—whether responding to the emergency in Sri Lanka following the tsunami, dealing with environmental disasters in Afghanistan, or ensuring isolated communities in Abkhazia receive vital food supplies. Together we are ready to do so again.

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As an organisation that serves some of the world’s most vulnerable people, our priority is the safety and wellbeing of both our staff and the families who depend on us. We are adjusting how we work in line with the latest national government and World Health Organisation guidance to ensure we keep everyone protected.
However, where possible and where it is safe to do so, we are continuing to work to clear the landmines that threaten people’s lives and looking at using our expertise and capacity to support the COVID-19 response.

PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE

The current health emergency has thrown into even sharper relief the vulnerabilities of countries and communities where years of conflict have destroyed infrastructure and livelihoods. Health provision is often poor—or non-existent—and access to vital resources such as water are cut off.
This makes us more determined than ever to continue our mission to clear the landmines and explosives—so families, communities and countries can rebuild.
We are grateful to the continued support of our donors and partners in these uncertain times. By standing together, we can continue to fulfil to the best of our ability the humanitarian mission and values we all share, while keeping our staff, their families, and the communities we serve, as safe as we possibly can.

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Landmines laid during the ousting of the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and throughout the 80s and 90s have had a devastating impact on the people of Cambodia. Over 64,000 casualties and more than 25,000 amputees have been recorded since 1979.
Around half of Cambodia’s minefields have been cleared and those remaining are largely concentrated in the rural north-west of the country, especially along the Thai border on a 750km mined area known as the K5. As the population expands, families have little choice but to move onto mined land, placing themselves at risk. People like Cheng Seang, who lived near the notoriously dangerous K5 mine belt, live in hope, waiting for things to change.

We employ around 1,000 men and women from mine affected areas in Cambodia to work in minefields all along the Thai border from Koh Kong to Preah Vihear, and also in the south eastern province of Tboung Khmum. Our teams clear hundreds of landmines every month.
We also respond to a huge number of calls from people elsewhere in the country who have found dangerous explosives that need to be destroyed safely. The threat to the people of Cambodia—from landmines and other dangerous debris left after the war—is extremely high. Children like Arya and Molika, who walk to school right next to a minefield, are particularly vulnerable because of their innate curiosity, so our risk education visits to communities and schools are vital.

Arya and Molika live next to the K5 minefield. HALO is clearing the land round their new school so they will no longer have to walk to class along the minefield or avoid playing on nearby dangerous ground. Molika wants to be a farmer when she grows up and Arya, who loves learning science, wants to be a nurse. Our work to destroy the landmines will ensure Arya and Molika can have the opportunity every child deserves, to grow up safely and realise their potential.

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Over 63,500 landmine and ERW casualties have been recorded in Cambodia since 1979, and with over 25,000 amputees Cambodia has the highest ratio per capita in the world. Despite a considerable reduction in casualty numbers over recent years, down from 875 in 2005 to 269 in 2008, Cambodia's mine and ERW problem still represents a major impediment to the social and economic development of the country. However, given more than 18 years of humanitarian demining, the landmine threat is now largely concentrated in just 21 north-west border districts.
In these rural districts the landmine problem continues to negatively affect much-needed development by hindering access to:
Land for agriculture and resettlement
Infrastructure and basic social services
Irrigation and safe drinking water
Secondary and tertiary roads
Land for cattle raising and foraging for forest products;
as well as:
Placing financial and emotional hardship on families needing to care for a landmine survivor
Causing psychological trauma for those forced to live alongside such a threat[16]
HALO Cambodia currently has over 1,150 national staff working in the provinces of Battambang, Banteay Meanchey, Otdar Meanchey and Pailin. Recruiting, training and then deploying female and male deminers from the mine affected districts means that the landmine contaminated communities remain an integral component in the clearance process. Living and working in these communities, deminers are methodically ridding Cambodia of the landmine menace.
Between 1991 and May 2010, HALO Cambodia cleared over 6,115 hectares (15,110 acres) of landmine contaminated land whilst destroying over 229,000 landmines, 139,200 items of large calibre ammunition and 1.28 million bullets.
Alongside clearance work HALO's survey teams have continued to systematically clarify the nature and magnitude of landmine contamination in Cambodia. The current focus of HALO's survey teams is the Baseline Survey of Cambodia, a Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) led process to quantify the true nature of the remaining mine threat in Cambodia
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Hunting for landmines in Cambodia: ‘If you see a bomb, don’t touch it’
Mark Orwoll
Apr 6, 2020
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We are bounding down a hardpan dirt road an hour southeast of Siem Reap, Cambodia. I have to pee, my jaw hurts from the truck bouncing over the ruts, and we’re heading to a place that could get any one of us killed. I’m increasingly unsure I want to be here.

Here? There’s hardly even a here here. This is serious Nowheresville — Sangveuy, a farming commune in the rural Chi Kraeng district, where the simple, tin-roof houses are raised on stilts; where 120-pound men run up a ramp to the back of a lorry to unload 150-pound sacks of rice from their shoulders; where ox carts outnumber old cars, and sugar palms outnumber utility poles; and where someone has recently called for help to remove, dismantle, or detonate some moldering but deadly unexploded ordnance that a farmer has discovered on his cashew farm.

I’m traveling with Bill Morse, the American founder of the Landmine Relief Fund, who is sitting shotgun. Behind the wheel of our Ford Ranger 4×4 split-cab pickup is Chhun Bora, the no-nonsense senior training officer and safety officer of Cambodian Self Help Demining (CSHD), a Cambodian-run NGO. Morse is compact, fit, ex-military, and seems younger than his 71 years. Bora looks like he could defuse a mine with one hand while ripping out your throat with the other. I sit in the back seat and keep quiet...
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26 killed and injured by landmines [in 2020]
By New Straits Times - May 13, 2020 @ 10:11am

TWENTY-six people were killed and injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance in the first four months of the year in Cambodia.

The Cambodian Mine Action Authority (CMAA) said it was a decrease of 48 per cent compared to the same period last year when 50 casualties were recorded.

Of the 26 victims, five died, 21 sustained serious and minor injuries, seven of whom had their limbs amputated and will become disabled for life. They are still being treated by medical teams.

A CMAA report said that during this period, seven de-mining operators - the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), Cambodia Self Help Demining (CSHD), Halo Trust, MAC, Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) and APOPO - had cleared 36,180,704 sqm and discovered 4,893 anti-human mines, 120 anti-tank mines, and 14,195 explosive remnants of war.
https://www.nst.com.my/world/region/202 ... -landmines
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Good news - mission accomplished !

SIEM REAP VILLAGE MINE CLEANING ACCOMPLISHED
10 June 2020
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Siem Reap officials and the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority announced that with the help of the Peaceland Organisation, Trapeang Thma Village in Khun Ream Commune, Banteay Srei district, is now free of landmines.
More than 100 mines and UXO were destroyed over 10 months.
Banteay Srei district governor Khim Finan told the Phnom Penh Post that residents who live in the area are now safe.
He said the village was chosen as the first destination to detonate mines and UXOs as the area was a former battlefield during the civil war.
“Because the location has a chronic war history, villagers have often spotted mines and requested help from the authorities to remove them.
carry out operations before any danger befalls the villagers.
Cambodian Mine Action deputy secretary-general Chhiv Lim said the project cost $180,000 and was donated by Peaceland. Mines have been removed from more than 60ha in the village.
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Cambodia’s Landmine Casualties Drop 42%
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Battambang (FN), Jun. 24 – At least 36 people were killed and injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) within six months of 2020, a decrease of 42 percent, compared to the same period last year, according to the First Vice President of Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) Ly Thuch.

Senior Minister Ly Thuch spoke Wednesday at the ceremony to raise awareness on landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) in Samlot district, Battambang province, joined by Battambang Deputy Governor Soeum Bunrith and Director of Sir Bobby Charlton Foundation in Cambodia Buth Rothna, CMAC leaders and Halo Trust representatives.

Thuch said Samlot district [Battambang] has the highest victim rate, accounting for 31 percent of the country's total 36 victims.
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Cambodia News, (Siem Reap province): On July 5, 2020, the demining team from the Cambodian Demining Organization (CSHD) received a request from residents of O'Meanchey village, Svay Leu commune, Svay Leu district, Siem Reap province, to come and retrieve some UXOs.
The villagers came across the six explosives in a clump of bamboo bushes while out working in a field and they called the authorities immediately to come and take them away.
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New Zealand Supports Cambodia to Achieve Mine-Free Status
AKP Phnom Penh, August 06, 2020 --

The Government New Zealand has pledged to further support Cambodia to achieve mine-free status by 2025 – an ambitious goal set by the Royal Government of Cambodia.

The commitment was made in yesterday’s video conference between Cambodian Senior Minister and Vice-President of Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) H.E. Ly Thuch and H.E. Taha Macpherson, New Zealand Ambassador to Cambodia, Thailand and Laos.

H.E. Ly Thuch expressed his deep appreciation of the Government and people of New Zealand, especially for the assistance of US$3.8 million for Cambodia’s demining activities from 2020 to 2024.
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Cambodia News, Preah Veng province: Some village people, who were pumping the water from a pond for fishing purposes, found the remains of a bomb that had been dropped from planes during the war. They immediately called the local authorities who called the CMAC.
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This was confirmed on 31 August by Mr. Heng Ratana, Director General of the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC), who said that the bomb that was dropped from the plane was an MK82, weighing nearly 230 kilograms.It was found in Prek Tasor commune, Po Vieng district, Prey Veng province.
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