ลาว: ประเทศที่ถูกทิ้งระเบิดมากที่สุดในโลก 270 ล้านลูก 80 ล้านยังไม่ระเบิด

Summary

Laos became the most heavily bombed country per head of population in the world, at 270 million munitions.

Around eighty million never went off and still kill people today, in casualties and in land that cannot be farmed.

All of it was part of a secret war the United States ran without ever declaring one.

Key points

1. 01

   The per-capita figure is what makes this different

   The tonnage measured against the population has no comparison anywhere.

2. 02

   For people there the war has not ended

   Unexploded ordnance keeps adding casualties fifty years after the fighting stopped.

3. 03

   The economic cost outlasts the human one

   Land that cannot be entered is a constraint on the development of the whole country.

4. 04

   The secrecy is part of the story

   An undeclared war meant no oversight, and left responsibility afterwards unclear.