With its sweeping aid cuts, the Trump administration has effectively ended U.S. efforts to address a deadly legacy of the ...
What happens to bombs after they land? Some explode. Some don’t, leaving behind a deadly legacy of war, but now some of the ...
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 ...
Bounkeut Sangsomasak, of Laos (officially Lao PDR), the most-affected country by cluster bombs, has spearheaded the campaign against the use of cluster bombs and has used his country as a model ...
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.