As a child soldier in Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge army Aki Ra laid many landmines. He now clears these deadly bombs with a stick and a pocketknife, more than 10,000 to date. It is very dangerous. No one pays him to do it.
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He hasn’t earned a profit yet? It must not be a booming business for him.
I’m sure he doesn’t mine, Scott.
I bet some days, that job just really blows!
Every dad hopes his son will be a sucess and follow in his footsteps. But like any young kid, he’ll probably have a blast going off on his own path.
Guy does a bang up job. He’s really dynamite.
What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is dangerous.
I read in a book (Generation Kill by Rolling Stone Reporter Evan Wright, in which Wright was embedded with USMC 1st Recon in Iraq), where they said that EOD (explosive Ordinance Disposal) according to textbook was only supposed to diffuse 12 landmines a day because of the stress it put them under. This guy must have nerves of steel.
I think this is also the same guy who has a landmine museum, and who goes village to village training people in EOD, and giving lectures to kids about how to recognize and avoid mines. In my mind, this guy is a hero. As I recall, he had been a child soldier, and as such I can’t hold him responsible for some of the things he did. Those kids were brainwashed.
I’m with crispy. He doesn’t have to do this – it would be a lot easier for him to just go on about his business and forget about the mines. He’s a hero in my book.
and the innocent always pays..