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The Most Bombed Country in the World
The Lao PDR has the unfortunate distinction of being the most heavily bombed country in the world in terms of the number of unexploded ordnance per capita. The bombs dropped include more than 270 million cluster munitions (as the Lao people call them “bombs”), which were released from cluster munitions.
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When was the bomb dropped?
The Lao PDR is the most heavily bombed country in the world. After the end of the Indochina War of 1964-1973 and more than forty years later, unexploded ordnance (UXO) remains a major humanitarian and socio-economic challenge for the country, causing injuries and deaths, limiting access to productive land use, and adding significant costs to the development process.
In excess of 270 million
Estimated number of sub-munitions (bombies) from cluster bombs
Up to 25 percent
of the country’s 10,000 villages blighted by the presence of these remnants of war
22,000 people
have fallen victim to UXO and bombies, almost half of whom died.
300 annually
Over the years, the number of people killed or injured has dropped to about 300 annually from UXO.
UXO Contamination Today
The Lao PDR today is the most cluster munition and UXO affected country in the world. UXO hidden everywhere. UXO can be found in rice fields, school yards, on hillsides, in rivers, along roads and paths and even in the centres of provincial towns.
UXO LAO operates in 9 of the most UXO impacted provinces in the country:
1. Luang Prabang
2. Huaphan
3. Xiengkhuang
4. Khammuane
5. Savannakhet
6. Sekong
7. Salavan
8. Attapeu
9. Champasak
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