CMAC builds elephants from weapons

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The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) has fashioned nearly 10,000 old and damaged weapons into elephants, trucks, maps and clocks to be kept at the Peace Museum of Mine Action in Siem Reap province. It will help future generations learn about the violence of the civil war era.

 

CMAC director-general Heng Ratana told The Post on Thursday that it had taken more than 9,000 decommissioned guns to transform them into animal figures and other creations to be kept at the museum.

 

“We wanted to keep the old guns and recycle them into other objects as a non-violent response to Cambodia’s troubled past."

 

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