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Picture of the day: Bomb craters in Kandal

Pascal Medeville by Pascal Medeville
February 15, 2026
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Bomb craters in rice fields of Kandal province, reminders of the secret U.S. bombing campaign ordered by President Nixon during the Vietnam War era, now turned into ponds that punctuate the Cambodian landscape – “Scars of war, fields of resilience.”

An aerial view of the bomb craters in Kandal Province (Kimlong Meng, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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