October 14, 2011
The 900-kilogram bomb found near a stream in Thua Thien-Hue Province. A 900 kilogram Vietnam War-era bomb shell was discovered near a stream in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on Tuesday, the VnExpress newswire reported. Soil erosion caused by heavy rains exposed the bomb, which was surrounded by other small sized bombs and mines [...]
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November 14, 2010
 Nong, a government employee pictured with the children of Kengkup village, Sepone District, Savhanakhet Province. Nong said four children were recently killed in the village while out playing with an unexploded sub-munitions dropped by American planes during the “secret” bombing campaign over Laos. The first use of cluster munitions reportedly occurred when a World [...]
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November 22, 2009
14-year-old Hoang Thi Thien had her right eye, chest, abdomen, and legs injured after a war-time bomb exploded in Quang Tri There is no peace for those who live in one of the worldâs most heavily-bombed areas. Nguyen Van Troi slept through the afternoon, not common practice for a farmer who usually tends fields all [...]
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August 1, 2009
A makeshift sign reads “Unexploded bombs, danger” in a field in central Vietnam. Over 35 percent of the land in six central provinces remains contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO), which still kills scores of innocent people every year, according to a new study released Friday. Since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, unexploded [...]
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April 30, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – From 1965 to 1973, people from Vinh Linh district in Quang Tri province lived in the Vinh Moc tunnels, harbouring soldiers, storing ammunition and simply surviving. If you asked a tourist to name a network of war era tunnels in Vietnam, no doubt they would say Cu Chi, which is now known [...]
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