Shenhao UP Lord

Chapter 317
In front of the work area, there is a small rolling hill. Among them is a hill about 200 meters above sea level called Lychee Hill. The Lychee Hill passes through a very important Highway 67, which leads from Siem Reap to Thailand, so Lychee Mountain is equivalent to a military important place.Behind the mountain, there are many paths leading to the jungle, where the guerrillas hid.

During the civil war, guerrillas planted landmines on various trails to prevent government troops from entering the jungle.

Every time I go on these trails, the geographic coordinates of where mines or bombs have been found are recorded and marked on my satellite map.The law of position can be inferred macroscopically.

The Landmine Management Bureau has its own website, on which it will publish information on the victims in real time. Statistics show that at least 1/4 of landmine victims, especially post-war landmine victims, are teenagers.

Because children's nature is to run around, they don't have a clear concept of danger, so the focus of lightning protection education is also on children.

We also feel that lightning protection education is a must, so we also participate in some lightning protection education work.But because I had never done this kind of work before, I didn't change my thinking at first.

We explain to the villagers the types, principles, models, classifications, and first aid measures of landmines. In fact, these are things that villagers do not need to know.

There is also a non-governmental organization that is doing lightning protection education like us. They are funded by the American church and are responsible for going to various elementary schools to play football with students.

In the process of playing football, use very simple language to infiltrate the awareness of mine protection. For example, you should pay attention to landmines, do not touch or touch them. I think this is very interesting. In fact, the most effective measures are not those with the highest technical content. , but is the simplest measure.

There are actually a lot of assistance to Cambodia at the government level for demining, but these things are often unknown.

I think there are some stereotypes about us in the world, which cannot be changed with the keyboard.For the locals who have never left the county, when they can actually see a Chinese person there, it will change their previous misunderstanding.

Through non-governmental projects to demonstrate our cooperation, responsibility and concern, I think this is the biggest gain of these overseas projects.

We divided the places suspected of having explosives into five minefields. When each area is completed, a land return ceremony will be held, and several tables and stands will be set up. We will put the explosives we dug on the table and show them to The local people watched, let them intuitively know that the danger has been lifted.

Then everyone will walk hand in hand in a line in the ground, and use their feet to prove that this area is really okay.

I came up with this display form. I think that through such an extreme method, the common people can be trusted, and our demining work is not in vain.

When the ceremony was held that time, government officials from the Mine Clearance Bureau also participated, but he actually refused such an approach at first.

In comparison, it is much easier to communicate between soldiers and soldiers.Soldiers are more afraid of being considered counseled, and would rather die than let others think they are counseled.

So I stood up and said that if we didn't have the confidence to walk on the landmines we dug, how would ordinary people use this land?

I will take the first one, so that no one will have the idea of ​​quitting, or he will not dare to express it.

The official of the Demining Bureau is still reluctant to leave at this time, but he brought over two or three generals. The general saw that the privates, privates, captains, and majors under him dared to leave. Come on the ground.

After everyone's emotions were mobilized, things became very easy. The official of the Demining Bureau said, "Okay, I will come too", and tremblingly followed us through the field. In fact, it was not a big deal, nothing didn't happen.

Rice in Cambodia is grown three to four times a year and grows very fast.As soon as we handed back the land in minefield No. 1 to the villagers, they started sowing seeds.By the time we reached the end of minefield No. 2, the location of minefield No. 1 was already covered with lush rice.

One day, I passed the original No. 1 minefield, and I couldn't tell that it was a minefield. Just like other normal land, the rice had grown very high, and a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old child was transplanting rice seedlings.

I was in a good mood that day, and suddenly I had a strong idea that I wanted to work with him. Because I couldn’t understand the language, I signaled to him in sign language. The child had no objections, so I planted rice seedlings with him for a while.

I looked around while I was planting rice. I saw mountains on one side, rice fields on one side, and woods on the other.

The forest is next to the paddy field. It is a minefield that has not been cleared of danger. Because no one has entered for a long time, the trees in the minefield have grown very tall, forming a forest.

The scenery of the Cambodian countryside is beautiful, with large areas of plains and scattered small hills.As the sun sets, it shines brightly in the rice fields, and birdsong can be heard in my ears, and they almost want to go home.

That picture is beautiful!
Ding Xu understands that such manual mine clearance is highly dangerous. After all, when working in aluminum-containing laterite, metal mine detectors have a high false alarm rate and low efficiency, which may indirectly cause casualties.

However, this kind of demining operation is at least organized and disciplined. A more wild way is to not participate in collective actions and demining on one's own.

Some farmers who have not been educated in demining knowledge are quite courageous, haunting the minefields day and night with hoes on their shoulders.Of course, these risk-taking behaviors are motivated by certain economic interests. For example, in some villages in Banteaymanche Province in the northwest, the employer or the village management can get 90 US dollars for clearing one hectare of land.

And the price of hiring minesweepers in Battambang in the west has risen from US$2002 per hectare in 100 to US$250 today?

In the face of the extremely low income in Cambodia, this remuneration may be quite a lot, but this is actually the price that the poor place on their lives.

This kind of private demining is too dangerous, so it has not received official permission. The Cambodian Mine Action Center has ordered villagers to prohibit villagers from clearing mines by themselves.

At the same time, in order to make people aware of the dangers of this approach, Cambodia holds the National Mine Protection Awareness Day every year to educate the public on mine protection risks, and invites the demining department, the Cambodian Red Cross Society, UNICEF, and Relevant international organizations participated and shared experiences with the public.

Those injured in the unfortunate mine clearance activities can get help in the physical rehabilitation centers established by the country, but the prosthetics are not as good as the original ones after all.

(End of this chapter)