Southeast Asia

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Southeast Asia
Have you ever been walking through your backyard and all the sudden your leg was blown off by a landmine? Well 1 in every 236 people in Cambodia has had that happen. That’s why many people have fled their homes in Southeast Asia because they don’t want to put them selves or their family in danger of getting blown up by a landmine. Many people have begun to return back to their homes after many years away from them, because they think that they can deal with the landmines and that maybe some of mines are gone.
There are over 40 million refugees in the world that have left their homes because of the threat of death or injury from landmines. “One study… shows that during a six month period in 1992, 85 percent of those that where injured in mine explosions were engaged in nonmilitary activities such as farming, traveling between villages, and just tending their cattle.” So there are a lot of innocent people getting hurt for nothing. Most mines are located primarily in the developing world along roads, paths, and fields. This is causing many people the right to have a good free life, because many of the people don’t want to work on farms or heard cattle because they never know when they might step on a mine. This causes them to go poor and then they can’t support their family.
In Cambodia, one lady was out letting her cattle eat and as she was walking around looking after her cattle she happened to step on a mine. This injured both of her legs, causing her family to sell all their cattle to pay off the hospital bill and now they have no money.
Landmines are primarily used in wars for blowing-up soldiers; this puts a fear among the enemy. They are also used to protect things that are located on the ground, like bases, land missiles, or even boundaries. But once the war is over what happens to the land mines that have not been detonated? Well, they just sit and sit, waiting to do their job, and t...