Does anybody know how many people have suffered from amputations due to landmines in cambodia since 1979, or where i could find the answer?
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Howdy, Per the statistics have only been kept since 1994, although some prior injuries/deaths were included. As of 31 December 2006 the CMVIS database contained records on 62,653 mine/ERW casualties in Cambodia (19,337 killed, 43,316 injured, 8,589 amputees, 36,537 civilians). See this page for details info for Cambodia http://www.icbl.org/lm/2007/cambodia At the top of that screen is a drop down menu where you can put any country in and get details. Scroll down the page and you will see the extraordinary work they have done to monitor this. UNICEF also says: UNICEF has designated Cambodia the third most mined country in the world, attributing over 60,000 civilian deaths and thousands more maimed or injured since 1970 to the unexploded land mines left behind in rural areas. The majority of the victims are children herding animals or playing in the fields. Hope this helps, Yak
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And of course it's not just people who get their limbs blown off: Thailand's borders with Burma and Cambodia are littered with unexploded landmines, the result of decades of conflict. The FAE say many elephants, often domesticated ones used in the logging trade, are injured by mines every year as they work in remote forests close to the borders. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7934419.stm
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