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Photo: @rezaphotography // #Cambodia

The land had been left to lie fallow for several long years, the terrible years of the Pol Pot regime. The wide field looked suitable for farming, with earth that could be plowed and sowed. But it lay abandoned, and a sign indicated that no trespassing was allowed because of antipersonnel mines. Some argue that planting mines helps protect an army’s positions.

But those who have experienced war know that long after the peace treaties have been signed and the guns have gone silent, the “weapon of the coward” continues to carry on its work, for years. Craftily placed, a mine often hides where you don’t expect it, nestled in the gullies of a field, or concealed under some lush vegetation. Mines cause the highest number of civilian casualties, killing or maiming civilians throughout the world. Whereas antipersonnel mines bring tragedy to civilians, they bring fortunes to the companies that make them. It costs a dollar to manufacture a mine, but a hundred dollars to clear it. In Cambodia, as in every country where I had met people wounded by mines, the victims were usually adults. Even if children had many ways to set off a mine, such as chasing into a field after an animal, playing hide-and-seek on the street while on the way to school, or picking up small, colorful plastic “toys” — mines that looked like playthings. Children are the main victims of mines. Since their bodies are closer to the ground, their vital organs are often struck by the blast of a mine, making the weapon deadlier for them than for an adult. I met the family of a man who had lost his leg on a mine. He and his family had become separated. His wife and children had settled in a hammock strung between two poles, setting up camp right on the sidewalk.
Published in "War + Peace" (National Geographic Publishing, 2007), "Reza, entre guerre et paix" (National Geographic Publishing, 2008)

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