February 17, 2010
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday it will still take years to clear the once war-torn nation of land mines that endanger lives in nearly half the country’s villages.
An estimated 4 to 6 million land mines and other unexploded ordnance from more than three decades of armed conflict continue to maim or kill Cambodians each year.
Speaking to some 1,000 deminers at a hand-over ceremony of demining equipment from the Japanese government, Hun Sen said that some 670 square kilometers of the country, or 46 percent of its villages, still needs to be cleared of the explosives.
Since the setting up of the Cambodian Mine Action Center 17 years ago, Cambodian and foreign deminers have destroyed 2.7 million mines and unexploded ordnance over about 520 square kilometers.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday it will still take years to clear the once war-torn nation of land mines that endanger lives in nearly half the country’s villages.
An estimated 4 to 6 million land mines and other unexploded ordnance from more than three decades of armed conflict continue to maim or kill Cambodians each year.
Speaking to some 1,000 deminers at a hand-over ceremony of demining equipment from the Japanese government, Hun Sen said that some 670 square kilometers of the country, or 46 percent of its villages, still needs to be cleared of the explosives.
Since the setting up of the Cambodian Mine Action Center 17 years ago, Cambodian and foreign deminers have destroyed 2.7 million mines and unexploded ordnance over about 520 square kilometers.
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