Distinguished by their blue shirts, a group of qualified Cambodian deminers, together with their ...

Accession Number P01752.004
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

Description

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.

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