Hong Kong, China (CNN)-- Aki Ra was forced to be a child soldier in the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in the early 1980s, taught to shoot a gun and plant deadly landmines. He was later ...

In Cambodia alone, they have caused more than 65,000 deaths and injuries since the fall of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in 1979, according to the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor.

It was believed that the area was scattered with landmines leftover from the Khmer Rouge, who occupied the Phnom Kulen from ...

a campaign that helped fuel the rise of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. During the nearly three decades of conflict that followed, millions of landmines were laid in Cambodia with tens of ...