Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan said he was deeply moved after digging up land mines for a week during a recent trip to Cambodia to raise awareness about the issue there.

Chan, a newly appointed U.N. goodwill ambassador, spent three days in Cambodia in late April, visiting land-mine explosion victims and HIV/AIDS patients.

Cambodia has Southeast Asia's highest HIV infection rate at 2.6 percent for 2002, according to the United Nations. The country's remote areas are still strewn with land mines and unexploded bombs left over from three decades of fighting.

The 50-year-old actor, a star of Hollywood and Chinese-language movies for more than 20 years, told reporters in Hong Kong Monday that he walked through an area once sown with land mines that has since been mostly — but not entirely — cleared.

Chan said he wasn't afraid, but "for a week, whenever I had a dream, I dreamt about digging (up) land mines."

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"A child could go to buy milk and return without legs," he said.

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