The landmine museum is a collection of munitions collected around Cambodia. Many by a single individual who defused at least 50,000 landmines personally. His story is quite fascinating, but long so I will not write it all in here. That’s what Google is for.
Due to a number of wars and proximity to Vietnam and Thailand many parts of the country were blanketed with mines, or has unexploded munitions scattered through the forests. Some are harder to spot that others.
A major problem with bombing areas is that many bombs fail and just lie in the ground waiting to cause problems in the future.
These are all examples of shells that were defused in Cambodia.
The munitions can be dangerous for over a hundred years. Just recently there was a WWII bomb found in Germany that caused an evacuation to allow for defusing.
Many devices were designed to maim instead of kill because injuries cost more to a military.
Unlike the movies there is no click, just a bang once triggered. Due to the efforts of several NGOs the number of people killed or injured by landmines in Cambodia is just over 100 a year. This is still too many and people are working everyday to continue clearing these cheap destructive devices.
