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• THERE ARE 119 MILLION MINES IN 71 COUNTRIES . • • NUMBER OF PEOPLE WORLDWIDE KILLED BY MINES EACH MONTH: 800 AVERAGE COST TO CLEAR A MINE IN CAMBODIA: $1,000 • CAMBODIA'S POPULATION: 7 MILLION • • NUMBER OF MINES IN CAMBODIA: 10 MILLION CAMBODIA'S ANNUAL PER CAPITA GOP: $150 • TO DE-MINE CAMBODIA. EVERY SINGLE CAMBODIAN WOULD HAVE TO DEVOTE EVERY PENNY EARNED TO DE-MINING FOR THE NEXT NINE AND A HALF YEARS . • NUMBER OF NEW MINES LAID WORLDWIDE EVERY YEAR: 2 TO 5 MILLION • PRICE OF A LANDMINE: USS3 TO USS30 • NUMBER OF PEOPLE WORLDWIDE MAIMED BY MINES EACH MONTH: 2,000 SOURCE: ICRC the end of the corridor in a darkened room a body has been lying rapped in army green plas(ic and tied wi(h (orn bandages like a museum piece. He was there when I arrived three days ago. Now he has offerings of cigarertes on his ches( since most of the other wounded soldiers in these rooms believe he has become a ghost. Samrong military hospital is (he last government stronghold before O'Smach, a (iny village near (he Thai border. The bar tle co take O'Smach has been going on since August 1997. Royalist (roops, pushed back from Siem Reap province by Han Sen's soldiers, retreated to O'Smach, forcing thousands of refugees to flee into Thailand. The royalist troops were later joined by crumbling Khmer Rouge forces from Anlong Veng (0 (he east where they dug in and are still holding out. No one here seems (0 be a doctor or know where co find one. A sign in a field near (he hospital compound reads in Khmer: "PRIVATE PROPERTY: DO NOT BURN OR BURY CORPSES IN THIS RICE FIELD." Apart from (he corpse (here are 26 o(her patients in (his hospi(al. Some writhe in pain or s(are malarial from (heir hammocks, suspended over scraps of food, puddles of urine and dried smears of blood. A man weeps into a blanket when I approach his bed. He covers his face and says he has been waiting four days to have shrapnel removed from his back. No one has visited him, no friends, no family, no doctor. """I .. ,z;h ";cf;"-� H",� 5e� � .. IJ.;(,(�- ..... ., , I