"Millions of People in Laos Still Live in Fear" as Obama Pledges $90 Million to Clean Up U.S. Bombs
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- Category: Justice
As President Obama becomes the first American president to visit Laos, we look at the legacy of the U.S. bombing campaign there during the war on Vietnam. The U.S. dropped at least 2 million tons of bombs on Laos. That’s the equivalent of one planeload every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years. Experts estimate that Laos is now littered with as many as 80 million bomblets—the baseball-sized bombs found inside cluster bombs. This week, Obama pledged $90 million to help clear Laos of the unexploded U.S. munitions. We feature excerpts from our interview with a Laotian bomb accident survivor and victim assistance advocate, and speak with Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern, co-authors of the book "Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos."
Read more http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/8/millions_of_people_in_laos_still
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