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 ...

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 ...

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.

Rats often get a bad rap, but now one heroic rodent is being hailed for his work in sniffing out landmines in Cambodia ... Cambodia: Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of 1970s genocide The ...