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‘A first mistake is a last mistake’: The delicate art of clearing landmines

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Deminers with the Mines Advisory Group are clearing land of deadly remnants from four decades of war.

Cambodia ’s contamination stretches over 435 square kilometres in ten provinces.

An estimated 10 to 20 million landmines still lay in the ground across the country.

Roughly one-third of these are still active and unexploded.

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