Aki Ra (sometimes written Akira, born c. 1970) is a former Khmer Rouge conscripted child soldier who works as a deminer and museum curator in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

[10] He would defuse the landmines and UXOs (unexploded ordnance) he found in small villages and bring home the empty casings.

[11] Tourists began hearing stories about a young Khmer man who cleared landmines with a stick and had a house full of defused ordnance.

[15] He conducted informal mine risk education groups to teach people about the dangers of unexploded ordnance and landmines.

[9] In early 2009, a boy came to live with Aki Ra and Hourt who had lost an arm and most of a hand to a cluster munition.

He was working with his uncle in a field near Battambang, west of Siem Reap when he found an explosive probably left over from the Cambodian Civil War.

Cambodian government authorities soon tried to close down the museum, and Aki Ra was required to cease his "uncertified" demining activities after being briefly imprisoned in 2001[17] and again in 2006.

Ongoing funding is uncertain as CSHD must compete with larger demining NGOs such as Mines Advisory Group and Halo Trust.

In 2005 the book Children and the Akira Landmines Museum was published in Japanese, listing Aki Ra as the principal author.

[31][32] In February 2013 Aki Ra received the Paul P. Harris Fellowship for peace and conflict resolution from the Rotary Club of Gravenhurst, Ontario.

[27] Several sources state that Aki Ra has had health problems due to his chronic, repeated exposure to explosive chemicals such as TNT and RDX.

[4][15] In August 2018 Aki Ra was arrested for keeping defused, inert munitions on display at the Cambodian Landmine Museum.