26 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: CHUNG SOKNA, 16, wears an old Khmer Rouge type outfit as she greets visitors at the landmine museum operated by Aki Ra in Siem Reap. She lost her arm to a landmine in 1999 while she was looking after her family cows near Siem Reap. Aki Ra was a child soldier drafted by first the Khmer Rouge and later the Vietnamese army. One of his responsibilities was to plant land mines for both sides. After peace came to Cambodia he started his own demining operation. He has been clearing landmines in Cambodia since 1990. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. In addition to demining operations Aki Ra has an orphanage for 20 children maimed by mines.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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