On The Edge - Linocut - 38 x 27cm - Created in Sweden - 2010
In November 2008 I went with HALO Trust to visit Banteay Meanchey province, this is one of the provinces bordering Thailand where the majority of landmines were laid in the 1980’s. It is 1046 km in length and has become infamously known as the K5 belt. This woman and her family had been ‘relocated’ to live on the edge of a minefield. There was no work for the villagers; they survived by foraging and cutting down trees, when land has been made safe it is often deforested.