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27 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: HAM KOMSUP, 28, undergoes physical therapy at Handicap International in Siem Reap, Cambodia. He was a child soldier fighting the Khmer Rouge near the Thai border in 1993 when he stepped on a small plastic landmine which blew off his foot and part of his leg. He is now undergoing therapy at Handicap International. Handicap International helps Cambodians maimed by mines and unexploded ordinance as well as traffic accidents and disease adjust to a life without limbs. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. Photo by Jack Kurtz

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27 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: HAM KOMSUP, 28, undergoes physical therapy at Handicap International in Siem Reap, Cambodia. He was a child soldier fighting the Khmer Rouge near the Thai border in 1993 when he stepped on a small plastic landmine which blew off his foot and part of his leg. He is now undergoing therapy at Handicap International. Handicap International helps Cambodians maimed by mines and unexploded ordinance as well as traffic accidents and disease adjust to a life without limbs. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. Photo by Jack Kurtz