Category Archives: Personal Stories
Voices From the Plain of Jars
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 of its message has, if anything, increased.” Voices is unique because the book was written by the victims of U.S. Executive Secret war themselves,
“The most appalling episode of lawless cruelty in American history (is) the bombing of Laos. . . . The human results … are described without rancor—almost unbearably so—in a small book that will go down as a classic. It is “Voices From the Plain of Jars,” … in which the villagers of Laos themselves describe what the bombers did to their civilization.” – New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis.
“Buy the book “Voices from the Plain of Jars”
www.amazon.com/Voices-Plain-Jars-Perspectives-Studies
UXO clearance remains too inefficient
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 on their country and why, Director of the National Regulatory Authority
(NRA), Mr Phoukhieo Chanthasomboun told the Vientiane Times yesterday.
