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| Section The ICRC in Laos This country is covered by the regional delegation in ThailandThe ICRC in Thailand  Photo Collection8-5-2008 Laos: the enduring threat from cluster munitions  According to the Lao National Unexploded Ordnance Programme (UXO Lao), some 270 million cluster submunitions (bomblets, also commonly called "bombies" in Laos) were dropped on Laos in the 1960s and 1970s; approximately one third of these submunitions failed to explode and go on killing today. Photo feature from Xieng Khouang province, near the Vietnam border, where a wide range of deadly explosive remnants of war threatens the population. (Info resources\Photos\Asia and the Pacific) Photo Collection Includes Photo Press article27-4-2008 Cluster bombs of the Secret WarLink to an article published on the blog of Richard Lloyd Parry, Times online, 27 April 2008. (The ICRC worldwide\Asia and the Pacific\Laos) Press article 26-4-2008 A deadly harvest of cluster bombs in LaosViengkeo Kavongsone had lived in fear of such a catastrophe all his life - in the jungle, in the paddy fields, on the mountain - but never in his own back yard. Article published in the Times, 26 April 2008 (The ICRC worldwide\Asia and the Pacific\Laos) Press article |
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