UXO in Laos

Project Sekong 2013: A Young Accident Victim Gets To Personally Share His Story With Secretary Clinton

February 1, 2013
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Project Sekong 2013: A Young Accident Victim Gets To Personally Share His Story With Secretary Clinton

Our ten-person team is headed for a remote setting that lacks electricity, phone lines and internet connection. We would like to keep our supporters informed about our efforts but timely communication via the internet just isn’t possible at this time. For now, the best we can do is to post photographs that document the...
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Unexploded Ordnance in Laos: A Deadly Legacy of War

January 30, 2007
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Unexploded Ordnance in Laos: A Deadly Legacy of War

Laos is the most heavily bombed country in the world.  During the Indochina War, American planes flew 580,000 bomb runs over Laos and dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs, including over 200 million cluster bomblets.  Today, as many as 27 million bomblets remain.  Since the war ended, more than 40,000 Lao people...
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