Opinion: A well-deserved statue for a hero rat ^71.6%

KUOW Public Radio - By Scott Simon - 4/11/2026, 12:00 PM

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A large statue of a small national hero was unveiled this week in Cambodia Seven-feet tall and hand-carved from stone, the statue commemorates the life, and lives saved, by a real rat. Magawa was an African giant pouched rat. He sniffed out more than 100 land mines as a 'heroRAT' working for Apopo, a Belgian non-profit group that's... more