Yikes. :o(

Another example of American gov bringing freedom and democracy to the world.

Who planted the mines there in the first place?

Blood..hell!...he did that so casually!

#3 - this is somewhere in Vietnam. They are speaking Vietnamese, and the reference to the mines being 50 years old fits dead-on in the heart of the Vietnam war. That being said, this was probably the US, although we had allies that could have planted them anyway. Long story short, the allies in The Vietnam War planted these. (Our enemies did not have the resources to use these. Their similar weapon of choice was the punji stick....also very effective back then)

#2 - shut the fuck up. War is HELL. Nobody likes it. Nobody wants to go to it. But if we take WWII for example, you can thank the likes of collateral damages far more devastating than those cause from the land mines you see here, for not speaking German and saluting Hitler every fucking day of your miserable life. (And that's assuming you're white/not Jewish...you wouldn't even exist otherwise)

Okay...personally, I'm curious as to if they are able to use the mines for anything? I'd think it would be safer to, once found, put them all in a cluster and detonate them remotely (large log/small boulder dropped from lever mechanism/throwing them far away until they land right & blow up?)

i think #2 was just sarcastic.

Here's are the facts surrounding this situation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Ra

The mines were planted by an extremist (nutjob) group called the Khmer Rouge that, found it fun to kill their own people. The man disarming the mine is a former "drafted" soldier whose parents were killed by the Khmer Rouge.

#2 It would appear that you prefer to remain uneducated and instead opt to spread rhetoric. You may now go crawl back under the rock from whence you came.

That's nice. If I recall Sweden is manufacturing mines just like that one and ships them across the world.

Clearing mines is the worst job I think. I'd rather dive headfirst into a toilet at the end of a festival (Glastonbury), than clear mines.

Shouldn't they be working far away from each other, just in case one of them sneezes. Shame to loose all the experts of the whole region in one event.

#2 & #5 The landmine in this video is a Russian PMN 2 anti-personnel mine that was
used by communist and other forces in Southeast Asia and many war zones around the world.
The enemies of the Allies (NVA and Viet cong) had the full support of USSR and China.
According to sources this Russian mine can be found in Afghnaistan, Armenia, Azerbeijan, Cambodia, Chechnya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Honduras, Lebanon, and Mozambique.
The first significant use of landmines did not occur in Cambodia until the 1979 – 1989 Vietnamese occupation.

Here is one being disarmed in Afghanistan by US forces.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa9CtYH5I5o

Yeah, ok, I stand educated. American gov doesn't and never did drop mines on countries it was not at war with. You can all go back to watching wrestling and baseball.

#11 You sound like a guy with an ax to grind. Make sure you don't cut your own head off with it.
PS You don't "drop" mines,you plant them.

Yeah, america never planted any mines, nor did they pour massive amounts of napalm over south east asia, nor did they kill hundreds of people outside their jurisdiction, without being in a state of war, nor did they kidnap people out of allied countries to guantanamo because they might be inflicted with organizations formerly supported with american money.

#13 I don't know why you want to carry #11 's water,so to speak,but Germany has no grounds to
criticize any other country after killing millions of civilians who were not in a state
of war and using captured civilians for slave labor. #2 , #11 was dead wrong about whose
landmine is in the video and I just straightened him out. You sound like you have an ax too.
Be careful not to cut yourself.
The combatants who were taken to Guantanamo were mostly all captured on the battlefield;
would you like us to send them to Germany?
Your knowledge of history is flawed.

PS " because they might be 'inflicted' with organizations" ; did you mean
affiliated ?