Fewer Casualties From Mines in Cambodia, but Reduced Funding Means Risk Remains

Children sit near a minefield outside their home in the northwestern Cambodian province of Battambang, one of the most heavily-mined in the country (Photo: VOA - R. Carmichael)

23 February 2010
By Robert Carmichael, VOA
Phnom Penh

The number of Cambodian casualties from land mines and explosives left from decades of conflict has been steadily declining. But cuts in donor funding for demining could see this trend reversed.

Cambodia has an unenviable reputation as one of the most heavily-mined countries on earth, along with countries such as Angola and Afghanistan.

So the news that the number of people killed or injured by land mines and leftover explosives dropped 10 percent last year is welcome.

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