Yes, how bad the American military did for our people and our country as a whole. No wonder, Lao people are still poor. No place to do agriculture works, everywhere there are lots of bombs left from the American war.
I saw a picture of a B 52 dropping a lot of bombs and the comment ' DEMOCRACY COMES TO YOU' in Flickr.com I did not find that amuse of the american SECRET WAR IN LAO' I do not believe LAO needs this sort of DEMOCRACY, because it just destructions nothing else, we can see it now in IRAQ.
All lao people should help the government to protect and defend the PEACE and the COUNTRY.
To webmaster if you need more information about bombing in Laos, please come to visit us in UXO LAO headquarter, Vientiane Laos or office in 9 provinces. We the Lao deminers are working on clearance bomb from our motherland more than 10 years. Visit our website www.uxolao.org/
Some of the images in the video were not from Laos. There is an A10 anti-tank aircraft dropping a line of bombs on what looks like a training run. The A10 was not built until way after the American War in Laos and Vietnam. And why the music? UXO LAO does an admirable job but they only get a few million dollars a year and it will take them decades to clear up all the UXO on their present budget. The people who dropped the bombs should come and pick them up.
Excellent video. During war, I was young & lived in Viangjan city. No wonder why after 1975, New Gov.(the winner) took everybody in old gov.(the loser) to "sammanaa" to see what they did to our mother land. Until now, those unexpled bombs (UXO) still threat Lao people. About the music. Give me a break. It doesn't matter where it comes from. It's just a music. It's not harmful, it's enjoyable.
No nation in the world has suffered more from cluster bombs than Laos. Between 1964 and 1973, when the Secret War was abandoned, US aircraft flew 580,000 missions and dropped two million tones of bombs on Laos. These included 277 million cluster bomblets. Assuming a failure rate of 30 per cent, 84 million of these are still lying in the ground. The best figure for casualties caused by cluster bombs is 4,847 since the end of the war, almost half of them children. Deadly explosives have become part of everyday life. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3818771.ece