50 years on, US bombings still terrorise Cambodia

Yan Sam En is a farmer in the northeast Chetr Borei district. One day, almost 20 years ago, the father of five was working in the forest close to his home when he found four cluster bombs, unexploded remnants of the US carpet bombing that devastated the area in the 1960s.

“I didn’t want my children to play with the bombs, so I collected them, and as I did, one exploded. It blew off both my arms, and left me totally blind,” Sam En said.