Unexploded Ordnance. Between 1964 and 1973 the USA conducted "secretly" one of the largest sustained aerial bombardments in history, flying 580.344 missions over Lao and dropping 3 million tons of bombs (US$ 2.2 million a day). Around 30% of the bombs failed to detonate, leaving the country with unexploded ordnance.
For people all over eastern Lao this is a part of their daily life. Between 1973 and 1996 there were 11.000 UXO accidents and even agriculture has been afected by the people's inability to use the land.
The British Mines Advisory Group began clearance work in 1994. Only a tiny percentage of the ordnance has been removed. At the current rate of clearance it would take more than a 100 hundred years to make the country safe.
*For more info visit the British Mines Advisory Group webpage.
For people all over eastern Lao this is a part of their daily life. Between 1973 and 1996 there were 11.000 UXO accidents and even agriculture has been afected by the people's inability to use the land.
The British Mines Advisory Group began clearance work in 1994. Only a tiny percentage of the ordnance has been removed. At the current rate of clearance it would take more than a 100 hundred years to make the country safe.
*For more info visit the British Mines Advisory Group webpage.
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