Fourteen-year-old Kyan Khen* unwittingly triggered a landmine that took his left leg, and severely injured his right, while tending to his four buffalo in a rice field just across the Burmese border in Karen state in October 2009. His family fled to Thailand several years earlier, but young Kyan Khen regularly made the journey back [...]
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