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An estimated 80 million unexploded US cluster submunitions still litter Laos more than 50 years after the Vietnam War, and the clearance rate remains below 1 percent—keeping farmland off-limits in one of Asia’s poorest countries.
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Explosives left from the Vietnam war are still causing issues in contamination, development, health and agriculture. Learn more