Accession Number | P01752.004 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Colour |
Physical description | Colour |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | Cambodia: Siemreap province |
Date made | February 1993 |
Conflict |
Period 1990-1999 Cambodia (UNTAC), 1992-1993 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright unknown - orphaned work |
Distinguished by their blue shirts, a group of qualified Cambodian deminers, together with their ...
Distinguished by their blue shirts, a group of qualified Cambodian deminers, together with their two New Zealand instructors, take a break from mine clearance operations. The New Zealanders, clad in jungle green uniforms, are members of a Mine Clearance Training Unit (MCTU) that forms part of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). The New Zealand soldier at right is Staff Sergeant D. B. Lark, second-in-command of an MCTU based in Siem Reap. The deminers are graduates of a four-week course run by the MCTU which teaches students to plan and conduct mine clearance operations under supervision. MCTUs ran such courses throughout Cambodia, teaching local people how to destroy the mines that were laid in their thousands during the period of the Khmer Rouge regime.