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Over the 42-year period from 1979 to 2021, there were 15,289 people in Battambang province who were killed, disabled or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO), according to Battambang provincial governor Sok Lou.
Minister of National Defence Tea Banh praised the UN Centre for Peacekeeping Forces for giving Cambodian peacekeepers the opportunity to raise the profile of the Kingdom’s soldiers and military personnel and make positive contributions on the international stage by choosing them for many of the most important and challenging missions over the last 15 years.
In the first nine months of this year, mine-related institutions have provided educational material to more than 740,000 people, according to the Cambodian Mine Action Authority (CMAA).
An inter-ministerial working group has been searching in Kandal and Prey Veng provinces for 10ha to 15ha of land to construct a museum for unexploded ordnance (UXO) recovered from a warship sunk in the Mekong River during the Cambodian civil war in the 1970s.