Still day 16, we visited MAG (Mines Advisary Group) in town. Sadly to know just recently Lao is the most heavily bombed country. Just in site 1 alone, there were 1920 cluster bombs n 3288 cluster bombs around the site, plus quite a few big bombs too, were dropped. There are 30% of them still hiden under the soil, still not yet cleared. The demolition process took MAG 1 year to complete jus along the paths n around the jars in all 3 sites.
It was more shocking to learn that not until 1997, 24 years after the Vietnam war (1964-1973) did the US government released the data of how many and where the bombs were dropped in Lao. The concern of UXO (unexplored ordnance) has enhanced the provety in this country by slowing down its agricultural development. The impact has been huge n caused casaulty n injuries to the locals and 50% were kids.
Thou the war has been long ended, the consquences of war still bothering this country in a huge concern. Hope I can convince the sponsors to donate partial of the money to do some little help here.
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