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Laos: The CIA’s Secret War – Photographs and text by Lars Just | LensCulture

The CIA’s attempt to corner North Vietnam left Laos pockmarked with tens of millions of bombs which remain to this day—some say it will be another 150 years before the country is cleared

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lars-just-laos-the-cia-s-secret-war

Today, the remaining bombs kill an average of one person per day, mostly children. Many locals fear plowing their own fields (in a country where 4/5 of the population are farmers) and the poor attempt to gather the bombs to sell as scrap metal to buy food—but often end up killing themselves in the process.

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