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$90 million to help clear unexploded cluster bombs in Laos

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Post by confuzzled dude Tue Sep 06, 2016 8:44 pm

VIENTIANE, LAOS — Decades after U.S. planes conducted hundreds of thousands of bombing runs over Laos, President Obama acknowledged that secret war and pledged $90 million in additional aid Tuesday to help clear unexploded bombs still strewn across the country.

“Given our history here, I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to help Laos heal,” said Obama, the first U.S. president to visit this struggling Southeast Asian nation. “And this spirit of reconciliation is what brings me here today.”

From 1964 to 1973, the United States carried out 580,000 bombing missions in Laos, dropping more than 270 million cluster bombs in a CIA-led campaign as part of the expanding regional battles from neighboring Vietnam, according to the National Regulatory Authority for UXO/Mine Action in Laos. UXO refers to unexploded ordnance.

Many of the bombings sought to cut off supplies to Vietnam, even though, officially, Laos was neutral in the Vietnam War.

Today, roughly 80 million unexploded bombs remain and continue killing and maiming dozens each year — many of them children.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/obama-pledges-90-million-to-help-clear-remnants-of-us-bombing-in-laos/2016/09/06/f7d9db6a-6ee1-11e6-993f-73c693a89820_story.html#comments

High time US cleaned up its act.

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