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PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): Since the beginning of January, eleven people were injured and one killed by land mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO).
Since the beginning of January, eleven people were injured and one killed by land mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO). According to a March 27 report from the Cambodian Mine Action Authority (CMAA), this represents a 56 per cent reduction on the same period in 2022, when 27 people became the victims of explosive remnants of war.
Japan donated 12 Advanced Landmine Imaging System (ALIS) mine detectors worth nearly $500,000 to the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) to help the Kingdom to achieve its “Mine-Free Cambodia 2025” goal.
Share A demining expert removes a UXO unit in Kampong Cham province’s Kampong Siem district on May 3. CMAC CMAC operations continuing unabated despite Covid-19 Tue, 1 June 2021 In the first four months of this year, Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) cleared more than 35 million square metres of land, detecting and destroying over 15,000 landmines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO), according to CMAC director-general Heng Ratana. Ratana said CMAC also held 5,818 information session to instruct groups on landmines and other munitions leftover from wars. The sessions reached almost 200,000 ...
Share CSHD destroys 181 units of UXO found in Oddar Meanchey village Tue, 6 April 2021 Cambodia Self Help Demining (CSHD) destroyed 181 pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO) on April 6 after finding them on April 4 in Po Chas village of Banteay Ampil district’s Beng commune in Oddar Meanchey province. The organisation said they had collected 3,352 pieces of mixed ammunition and 116.5kg of pistol bullets from Oddar Meanchey province in 2020. Chhun Bora, Explosive Ordinance Disposal Supervisor and Training Manager at CSHD, said on April 6 that his organisation had safely detonated 181 mixed pi...