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• • 08 Aug 06
  • 9:13 pm

  i wonder if laos could sue america irresponsible for what it did in laos.

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• • 13 Aug 06
  • 3:17 am

  The issue of UXO in Laos has caused some controversy and diverged our views so greatly that we could hardly agree on anything. It is just because we saw and experienced things at different time, at different place, and even at different generation. It might not be easy to digest an issue. The following info may give some clearer picture of the UXO in Laos. Between 1964-1973, more than 580,000 bombing miissions were carried out, dropping more than 2 million tonnes of bombs on Laos, from south to north. The Lao popolation at that time was less than 3 million. To …

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• • 13 Aug 06
  • 11:08 am

  whattheheck, You can visit www.undplao.com. More info on Lao UXO is there. For the UXO history in Laos, read the book, titled "Shadow War: The Cia's Secret War in Laos, by Kenneth Conboy. There are quite a number of books written about "the Secret War in Laos". I don't know the UXO problem in Vietnam and Cambodia. I guess they might face the similar problem. For Cambodia, after the US left, the rebel Communist forces, the Khmer Rouge, led by Pot Pol, took over the country. Between 1975-1979, about 1.7 million people are believed to have been killed under Pol Pot. …

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