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Lao PDR is the most bombed country in the world per capita. Throughout the 1963-1974 conflict, more than two million tonnes of weaponry was deployed over the country, with up to 30 per cent failing to explode as designed.
Today, up to 25 per cent of all villages are affected by unexploded ordnance (UXO), which includes big bombs, mortar, cluster munitions and submunitions, and landmines. These weapons continue to kill and maim women and children as well as disenabling communities and disrupting socio-economic development.
Find out more about MAG's work in Lao PDR at our special microsite, maginternational.org/laopdr
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Links:
- MAG Lao PDR: maginternational.org/laopdr
- Cluster munitions in Vietnam and Lao PDR: New era, old problem
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