Landmine clearance funding in decline
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Ten years ago this month the OttawaTreaty Banning landmines came into effect but despite the ban, countries like Cambodia are still grappling with the landmine legacy left by decades of conflict.
Cambodia's history between the 1960s and the late 1990s was a bitter one of civil war, then genocide, followed by yet more civil war. The fighting stopped in the late 1990s. In the decade since, Cambodia has enjoyed a rising standard of living for many. But one of the legacies of thirty years of war is the scourge of landmines, which has posed significant hardships in this predominantly-agricultural society.
Presenter: Robert Carmichael
Speakers: Touch Bunthoeun, former soldier injured by a landmine; Rupert Leighton, country director of Mines Advisory Group, http://www.maginternational.org/cambodia/
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