Kayah Landmine Clearers Working With Pliers and Bare Hands
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(Frontier Myanmar) Six men prod and poke at dense undergrowth in eastern Myanmar with rakes and hoes – not farmers, but a resistance unit clearing deadly landmines from the war raging between the junta and pro-democracy fighters.
A mine is spotted and one man lifts a mud-caked, palm-sized device from the earth with his bare hands and passes it to a comrade who deactivates it – with an ordinary pair of pliers.