World Ark Magazine - September/October 2008 - (Page 14) Some estimate 4 to 10 million mines are still buried, but no one is sure. Nevertheless, land mines are still “a massive problem” in Cambodia, said Suzanne Fiederleine, a senior researcher at the Mine Action Information Center at James Madison University in Virginia. Nearly half of Cambodia’s 13,908 villages are plagued by land mines, and reaching the national goal of removing them by 2015 isn’t likely to happen at the current rate of mine removal, said Chea Sarim, a regional Mines Advisory Group manager. Since international donor countries and groups funded about $30 million worth of mine clearing in 2007, compared to the Cambodian investment of $1.5 million, there is a critical need for more funding to speed removal. “It needs more attention,” Sarim said. While the problem of land mines is especially acute in Cambodia, the country is hardly alone. Despite a 1997 anti-personnel mine-ban treaty signed by more than 150 countries, an estimated 50 to 70 million land mines are still buried in more than 70 countries, from Mozambique to Croatia to Afghanistan. These weapons kill 15,000 to 20,000 people each year— about one person every 30 minutes, according to The International Committee of the Red Cross. Most victims are civilians. The United Nations estimates that one-third of victims are children. Most of the estimated 300,000 mine accident survivors worldwide live in developing countries where health care is poor and rehabilitation facilities rare. Mine parts like these will be collected and recycled as scrap metal. PAINSTAKING WORK emoving mines is notoriously slow, expensive and dangerous work, especially in Cambodia’s remote terrain like the minefield outside Pailin, a longtime stronghold of the Khmer Rouge. Getting here requires an hourslong, bone-rattling, seat-jumping drive over pocked and dust-choked roads in a military-grade jeep. On the way, skull-and-crossbones signs warn not to leave the road. The minefield itself is in a wooded area between farm fields. Nearby, chickens peck in the dirt yards of simple huts and concrete-block homes with corrugated tin roofs. The mines www.heifer.org R 14 September/October 2008 | WORLD ARK http://www.heifer.org
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