Tens of thousands of Lao civilians have been killed or maimed by “bombies,” as they are called locally, including many children who mistook them, especially the tennis-ball-sized cluster bombs, for ...

Russian combat engineers have defused over 580 explosive objects in Laos, the Russian Defense ... BLU-63 and BLU-3B types of US-made aerial cluster bombs as well as artillery ordnance of various ...

Large swaths of land in Southeast Asia are littered with unexploded bombs dropped by American forces during the Vietnam War.

After inspecting the bomb casings, I walked over to ... In total the U.S. dropped more than 270 million cluster bomblets, or “bombies,” on Laos—more than one for every man, woman, and ...

Among the topics she touched on included her family’s involvement in the bombing of Laos and how cluster bombs used in Laos are being dropped in Ukraine today. “We need to take bold action and ...

Children, lured by the toy-like appearance of cluster bombs, which are tennis-ball-sized fragmentation bomblets, dropped in the millions on Laos, make up approximately 75 percent of injuries.