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Aki Ra
Aki Ra (sometimes written Akira) is a former Khmer Rouge conscripted child soldier who works as a deminer and museum curator in Siem Reap, Cambodia. He has devoted his life to removing landmines in Cambodia and to caring for young landmine victims. Aki Ra states that since 1992 he has personally removed and destroyed as many as 50,000 landmines.〔(Life of the Land ), Time Magazine, 31. Oktober 2013〕
==Early life==
Aki Ra is unsure of his age, but believes he was born in 1970〔 or 1973.〔〔(Shibata Yukinori, "Book Review: Children and the Aki Ra Landmines Museum," ''Bulletin of the Jesuit Social Center,'' Tokyo, no. 129:129.3. )〕 His parents were killed by the Khmer Rouge.〔("Digging up the past: Legendary Cambodian deminer Aki Ra continues to build Cambodia's future by digging up its past," FCC Cambodia monthly newsletter, July 2007. )〕 Orphaned in a Khmer Rouge camp, he was taken in by a woman named Yourn who raised him and several other orphaned children. Like many others, he soon became a child soldier once his strength became sufficient to make him useful to local Khmer Rouge military commanders.〔(Ebonne Ruffins, "Cambodian man clears land mines he set decades ago," CNN July 30, 2010. )〕 When the Vietnamese army invaded Cambodia with the intention of toppling the Khmer Rouge political regime, he was taken into the custody of Vietnamese soldiers.〔(Mark Jenkins, "Cambodia's Healing Fields: Land mines once crippled a war-ravaged Cambodia. Today the nation is a model for how to recover from this scourge," ''National Geographic,'' January 2012. )〕 Later he enlisted with the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces formed by the new government, the People's Republic of Kampuchea. His duties included placing landmines along the mined area on Cambodia's border with Thailand.〔(Aki Ra, "The Story of My Life." )〕
The name "Aki Ra" was given to him by a Japanese acquaintance and is not his birth name. He was born Eoun Yeak, but one of his supervisors once compared his efficiency to AKIRA, a heavy-duty appliance company in Japan.〔〔(Kyle Ellison, "A step inside the Cambodian Landmine Museum," Dec 23rd 2011. )〕
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