Ex-Ravager's Remorse and Atonement

Aki Ra: Former Khmer Rouge Soldier Disarm Landmines By Hand. By Kathryn Hawkins.   

            Lately a hand full of people are going around working with each other as a team to clear the fields sweeping with landmines from the past-war. Everyone has their reasons to help rather it be because they are a humanitarian, or if they just want to support the cause, there are different individuals trying to help the cause. One man however has does it because he wants to fix what he have done which was wrong. At a young age, Aki Ra was forced to enlist into the rankings of the Khmer Rouge and took part in the problem addressed; the planting of land mines. He talks about his experience walking through the jungles with bags full of these bombs, throwing them randomly as they walk. Today he feel remorse for what he have done back then and wants to atone for this. What he does now is dangerous, but with his professional skills, he have never once gotten injured by his profession (maybe some cuts and bruises from traveling but that’s it). He goes around areas that he remember where he had been and planted land mines and disarm them. His determination is to make his home safer for children who have and are prone to being affected by this hazard

          I just got to say wow, I would be afraid to go through a jungle, and not just that but infested with landmines ! To take a fatal step at any time, I wouldn't even think twice of entering. Aki Ra is brave and determine, despite his actions in the past this is more than admirable enough to forgive him for what he had done as a child. Katheryn Hawkins found a great man who is risking his life to make life better for children. He also take in children who have been damaged and lost a limb or two by these landmines and use his funding to take care of them. Although his childhood he had been force to ruin many lives, today he is using the rest of his life to help protect others.

            How can you not feel such admiration in this man. Somebody can go and create a fundraiser to one day cure Leukemia, or support beast cancer, but this one man is doing more than just do something. He is getting results. Ra goes into the fray risking his life, not much people would do that. Using only his hands, a metal detector, and his trusty tools he hand disarm these death gadgets that could explode with the wrong applied pressure. I can never find myself to do something so dangerous, even for a good cause.



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Aki Ra- Former Soldier who now goes around disarming landmines for the safety of people.