Looking for new H5N1 reports, I stumbled onto this story in The Cambodia Daily: Mine, UXO Casualties Down; Deaths Steady. Excerpt:
The number of casualties from landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) dropped 12 percent to 185 last year, while total explosions fell by more than a third, according to the latest figures from the Cambodian Mine Action Authority (CMAC).
Despite a drop in casualties however, mines and UXOs still killed 43 people last year, just as many as in 2011.
The number of explosions declined, with 76 last year, down from 119 in 2011, according to CMAC’s year-end report.
“We see it dropping below 200; this is the first year for Cambodia,” Heng Ratana, CMAC director-general, said of the casualties in 2012.And all those deaths and casualties because of the political follies and disasters of 40 years ago. In 2013, Nixon's bombing of Cambodia continues.
