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Landmine Survivors Media Project Episode 2:
In the Shadow of Landmines

(2000)

In this episode, some cat who stepped on a mine one time* goes to Cambodia (country motto: "Are you going to eat that?") to help us learn more about landmines. This video says that there are actually more landmines than people in Cambodia; I guess it's like the thing to do over there, like making dumb videos to put on YouTube is in our country. Plus since the government is overthrown like twice a week, even more landmines end up getting planted. If you're a landmine sales rep this is the place to be, brother. First the host guy takes us to a "demonstration of landmines". I thought this part might be pretty cool, like maybe they'd find a field they thought was full of landmines and chase a bunch of cows or something across it; no people would get hurt, plus when the smoke cleared everybody would have something to eat. All they did though was show some disabled mines. Weak. Later, these little kids stop by the mine-disabler guy's hut and tell him they found a mine in the tall grass off the road. When the kids take him there, he sends them in first! What a cocksucker. Frankly, this whole tape was a downer, especially the part where they show like these amputees begging for money to buy food, artificial legs, and more landmines.

*He's hopping mad about it too. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! Get it?