XO (unexploded ordnance) are live bombs which failed to explode on impact. Most of the UXO in Laos resulted from cluster bombs which split apart mid-air Read More »
Roger Arnold – Roger Rumpf, a peace activist who spent years in Laos and drew international attention to the problem of unexploded bombs from the Vietnam Read More »
Voices From the Plain of Jars: Life Under An Air War has just been republished and, as historian Alfred McCoy notes in the foreword, “today the significance Read More »
Laos will begin to collect the bigger unexploded ordnance (UXO) discovered through clearance operations to keep evidence for explaining to future generations who dropped these bombs Read More »
Laos is considered a least-developed country in which the majority of the population are living a subsistence-farming based lifestyle. In simple terms, the impact of UXO Read More »