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Laos: Vietnam War bombs in ricefields

Written byMong Palatino
Posted 12 May 2008 17 years ago

MirmurR is surprised to learn that some Lao farmers are not using some of the fields for their crops because they find more and more bombs dropped by the U.S. during the Vietnam War which can explode, injure or kill them.

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