Some Cambodian farmers manage to reclaim their fields from landmine legacy (VIDEO)
Editor's note: This story is part of DEADLY DEBRIS, a three-month investigation by a team of students at Northwestern University's Medill Graduate School of Journalism that examines the deadly legacy of the United States' use of landmines and cluster bombs around the world and its $3.2 billion effort to clean them up. Medill students reported the series from Cambodia, Iraq, Ukraine and Mozambique.
BATTAMBANG, Cambodia — In this country once ravaged by war, many farmers are still afraid to work their land because of unexploded ordnance left behind from decades of conflict. But there's also new hope, at least for some farm families, as clearance efforts are making the fields safe again.
Reclaiming the fields of Cambodia from Carolyn Freundlich on Vimeo.
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