[Ngo-lwg] One Woman's Mission to Free Laos From Millions of Unexploded Bombs

Chuck Searcy chuckusvn at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 04:20:31 BST 2015


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/world/asia/laos-campaign-to-clear-millions-of-unexploded-bombs.html?_r=1#

*New York Times*
*One Woman’s Mission to Free Laos From Millions of Unexploded Bombs*
By THOMAS FULLER
<http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/f/thomas_fuller/index.html>
APRIL 5, 2015

HOUAYKHAY, Laos — Thao Kae and his friends were foraging for their dinner,
collecting the bamboo shoots that grow in the jungle a half-hour’s walk
from their remote hamlet along the Mekong River. As they dug and sifted the
soil, one of the boys found a small metal sphere and brought it back to a
house in the village.

“They thought it was a pétanque ball,” said Khamsing Wilaikaew, a
59-year-old farmer, referring to the French bowling game similar to bocce.
“They were throwing it against the ground.”

Four decades after it was dropped from a warplane, the metal ball, an
American-made cluster bomb
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/cluster_munitions/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>,
did what it was designed to do. Thao Kae, 8, was killed on the spot. Mr.
Khamsing’s wife and a 9-year-old boy died of their injuries days later.

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