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Tereza Pultarova

40-year-old spy satellite photos are helping find forgotten land mines in Cambodia

Some new survey areas in Cambodia that have been outlined for future work and/or full landmine clearance, thanks to declassified imagery from U.S. spy satellites.

Declassified images from U.S. military satellites are helping find forgotten mine fields in Cambodia.

From the late 1960s almost until the end of the 1990s, a bloody war between communist groups and democracy defenders raged, with a few short breaks, in the jungles and on the rice fields of Cambodia. The conflict left behind a hidden legacy that keeps increasing the war's death toll to this day.

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