Lao PDR has the unwanted distinction of being per capita the most heavily bombed nation in the world. The ordnance dropped include more than 270 million submunitions (known as “bombies” in Laos) released from cluster bombs.
Lao PDR is the most heavily bombed country in the world. More than forty years after the end of the 1964-1973 Indochina Conflict, unexploded ordnance (UXOremains a major humanitarian and socio-economic challenge to the country, causing deaths and injuries, limiting access to potentially productive land and adding substantial costs to processes of development.
Estimated number of sub-munitions (bombies) from cluster bombs
of the country’s 10,000
villages blighted by the presence of these remnants of war
have fallen victim to UXO and bombies, almost half of whom died.
Over the years, the number of people killed or injured has dropped to about 300 annually from UXO.
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.
The Governments of New Zealand and Ireland have been long-term partners and generous supporters of the UXO sector in Lao…
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Tel: (+856-21) 225023-4
Fax: (+856-21) 225025
E-mail: uxolao@uxolao.gov.la
