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While the roots of the AP mine crisis in Cambodia can be traced to the late 1960s, experts believe that most of Cambodia's eight to ten million mines were laid after 1979 when the Vietnamese ousted the Khmer Rouge and deployed millions of mines to protect their forward positions near the border with Thailand. During the 1984 offensive against the Khmer Rouge, the government created an immense minefield in Cambodia along the border referred to as the K-5. Six hundred kilometres long, this minefield, known as the K-5, contains two to three million mines. Mines continued to be deployed by the Hun Sen government after the Vietnamese retreat in 1989.

Even after a peace settlement was reached in the early 1990's, and a UN peace-keeping operation temporarily stabilized the countryside, mines were used by both the Royal Cambodian Government forces and the Khmer Rouge. Landmines still claim 200 to 300 new victims each month in Cambodia.