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Cambodian goldsmith turns bullet casings into jewellery to promote world peace

Thoeun Chantha selects bullet shells to make jewellery from. (Reuters: Cindy Liu)

Every week, Cambodian goldsmith Thoeun Chantha turns about five kilograms of brass casings of AK-47 and M-16 bullets into jewellery.

For more than two decades, the 42-year-old, whose father was killed during Cambodia's years of war, has run a workshop to turn symbols of violence into what he calls wearable pieces of art.

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