I want to make a brief statement about layoffs 1st we strongly and im reserve at least for the goals of a new bill and independent layoffs. I should know outside our own group of powers threatening no one and free from any domination of my fellow americans they are far away from america but the world and. The security of all Southeast Asia will be in danger if layoffs loses its neutral independence i want to make it clear to the American People and all the world that all we want to lay our. Hands. I am damn ladies and i sat. On the podium mean those days the american airplanes flew in night parts of limestone. Flew back and forth and dropped bombs like crazy and known as they didnt care about anything i knew nothing and all we could do was wait for our deaths to count. From june 1064 to march 973 the us dropped at least 2000000 tons of bombs on the small landlocked Southeast Asian country in what would become the largest Bombing Campaign in history the equivalent of one plane load every 8 minutes 24 hours a day for 9 years more than were dropped on germany and japan during world war 2. Bodies the meek on the other end but obviously at last on understand you could increase the danger along the Northern Front is thailand. Declaration of your project of laos and respect for that youre touting of independence or better look up to the president handed over the war effort in laos to the cia. This nation to the entire peninsula has threatened by red military takeover as it was last may. Americas intervention here in laws was a secret to the American People. The people also suffered tremendously from the world it. Was a little visit to those who. Laos is littered with as many as 80000000 bondys or bomblets based small signs bombs found inside cluster bombs. Up to 18000000. 00 of these files to detonate and just one percent of them to be cleek. Again the amount of bombs that were talking about that were dropped on this tiny country. Now and people have been living among the u. S. For decades. What they say today is that they want to put the war behind them and they want soon grow in the future and they would love the help of the United States government in doing that. On their story. We didnt know that they would come to bomb us make the well i just said the war is coming soon it will be a war of airplanes so youll have to run and hide as fast as you can. Over here journal write legibly went to the forest we went to the canucks they couldnt stay as the planes bombed the cave heavily by by you tom you know what i mean long money and just the sound of an explosion could kill you little bit. Little. Heat. And. 8. Times that will do that to the i see my family name is strongly d. Im not. I was born in 1955 im not quite sure how old i am. Who wouldnt want that but i called up someone said im 61 but i dont know if thats true what would happen. In 965 to be 52 planes started bombing the country i thought i mean. When you got me there were times that the planes didnt bomb and the man was. All movement no need that i. Mean sometimes a full day would pass without round. And we moved into this came to join my grandfather. For how one. Man there lead man you would have me there. In your hand. During the one time there were days of very heavy bombing. Of my own on the bombs dropped from airplanes beginning in 196510 and that continued in 1966167 through 969 bad power the bombs were boring from the airplanes on to the ground. But ive been gone for about 2 or 3 different kinds of bombs have been in. There some of the top 10 if a cave only had one entrance we couldnt take shelter them again and we were afraid that wed be trapped inside the enemy state on that mountain back then the mountain was higher than where they bombed the mountain until it can flat no one survived. 6 6 i. Am. I. Am i. The us dropped one plane load of bombs on average every 8 minutes 24 hours a day and 9 years. Mayor. Rahm emanuel our no one our house was over there at the base of the mountain oh it was really scary and who couldnt light fires at night and if we lit a fire the planes would come to bomb us for sure like dollar will hold and join us to 1st come to drop a light marker then they started bombing where Nothing Happened we couldnt sleep in the last year we had to run would crawl under one to hide from the airplanes we went to dig a hole next to the river over there the one that you read on. How i have 5 children at the time sometimes i had to carry or drag them as we ran. We had to dig the holes by ourselves there was nobody else who could dig for no rationale for crap you just had to dig with your family until the hole was large enough for everyone to fit the 2 families in one hole moment the day they were bombed my house i saw the village mark the monk went to dig a hole on the mountain he had been for fighter jets came really fast and we had to run for our lives he dropped many bombs in our area and we had to run and hide in the hall and the little i almost didnt survive that day the bombing was really heavy. The bombs fell like rain will. Even go all yeah well my father died in 1969 well you know right now i live many after my father died we werent able to farm anymore we couldnt do any farming or grow food in our gardens at all because the airplanes were gaming the area so heavily at the time. You know it was more than 10 years old by then. And when they are now after my father died we stayed with my grandfather s. K. You know what ill let you know how many out. When i see the children these days and think about the past my tears drop. Most of the time when i pass by this area and see this cave in the cliff i start to cry remembering my life up there. With me that by banning all the difficulties and losses. Whenever i come back here i think about that difficult time and when i lost my father i never thought about life or anything else during the war all we could think about was the difficult situation we were in during the war. When i look at the modern world today i never thought we would have electricity we have enough clothes and other things to wear and use. We have the tractor to work in the rice fields and. We have cars motorbikes and light to see at night. Me i. Just when the United States is graduate pulling out of vietnam there is a rush of concern that blogs may become another not absolved as they have ministration and says. Well the president will let it happen thats were. Learned one lesson that is were not going to buy any. Major wars. In the mainland of asia again were not going to send american troops there and we really are going to do it. In public in the in this there are no america. Combat forces involved we have been providing Logistical Support of some training for the newest government in order to avoid laos falling under communist domination as far as american manpower in mouse is concerned there are none there at the present time on a combat basis. The last bunch of slow march they came around noon. When you heard the vietnamese on the cliffs firing the guns. Back. Then you know it was time to run and hide because they were coming. They were coming for sure and they would bomb us heavily. The planes didnt drop just one bomb at a time they dropped bombs on one long line as they flew. Home we werent even able to escape them in the cave. We just had to run and hide for our lives they kept dropping bombs until they were satisfied and went back to see that they didnt care what they were bombing everything was gone. The only thing that was left of a crisis some courses were really big. Life had no meaning during the war you hoped you would survive see the world in your family again and im not alone. But i knew during the war we lived in the forest we couldnt live in the village because it was all on fire when you when you needed it was time of destruction from the bombs in this however the pillars of the houses remained. In 1975 we returned to the village where we still live in good order and i dont know how to describe the number of mines that were on the roads oh no the road lines were piled up everywhere for the now trying to clear the mines but they will never be able to finish on a lot of flat mines were dropped thats the kind that destroyed my leg. Now were cant believe that it wasnt even a year later when my husband went to dig in the field that we had no cattle left on the planet my husband was the 1st to go back to the fields he was digging and he had a bomb. It exploded and he died immediately report like right there on the spot. I was left alone with all of our children and ive been taking care of them by myself ever since. He died so many years ago. Yet. There are currently 80000000 unexploded american bombs in laos enough to cover 83 american football fields. Im nailing on the last of the war ended we moved to the village there was so many unexploded bombs. There was a u. S. O. In every bush. Little. More do like oh yes there are still many of them around and they are still active. So im very disturbed one it explodes. Now many people were killed by them as they talk in a rice fields. Without yanks the bombs where in every corner of our rice fields home after the war ended i was always careful i never used hose to dig in my fields never. Known the cost of arms are very rusty but if you hit one it explodes trying to land they last for a really long time phone time have. Yet. To all. You know file this is my daughter unknown to us. Down youre too tall he cant see you. I thought i had come in. This is my husband. Become seen you to talk to. Some i and her husband both work for us a loud louse is National Bomb clearing organization. Up goes my name is on site encounter von im 38 years old. I work with us so low income a one province. And. We have a risky and dangerous job. I discussed this topic with my wife before she went to the training at. Home now. She knows that its dangerous but she wants to take part. She wants to help the villagers have less risk in their everyday lines. We work in different places which are quite far apart she works on site and im in the office we only see each other a few days out of the month not that i meet that man but most of the time my mother takes care of the house and the children and my son and my daughter. My husband often comes home during the week its how we do things i depend on him because he works closer to home. And when he comes home to spend time with the children and takes care of the household because im usually gone for 20 days or more at a time. Fatso mind her team work 252 days of the year searching for us unexploded ordinance they work hard to find dig up and detonate the 80000000 us one by one. And begun at the level of what we do each day depends on the location of the sars and when there are a lot of crisis then there will be more. We used to find about 20 to 30 in a single day sometimes they were even 40 or 50 year x. I was in a single location and sometimes would find an entire cluster bomb with all the small director units and signs. And after my training the 1st time i had to scan for bombs i was so afraid but i slowly got used to it and then it became normal. And i look. Back and i am and i can see everybody in our team is working hard to clear the bombs. When we know that its dangerous. But we have to do our best. And i really want all of religious to be able to go about their daily lives and safety of them. Like im not a liberal i want to designate all the remaining u. S. Owes and loss and i am the kind of a good. Almost 80 percent of laotians a subsistence farmer as they and their families are especially at risk. As to the general view on this matter is of great concern to wash United States is anxious that there be a stablished in laos a peaceful country. A country an independent country not dominated by either side but theyre concerned with the. Life of the people within the country we are. Anxious that that their situation there come forward and the United States is using its influence to see that independent country peaceful country im committed country and be established under the present very difficult circumstances dont you know any faith and then i have a man when i was young around 10 years old i want my mother to collect a bang and we found you x i was in the bushes and i was about to dig to find some bamboo and. Then i saw the wreck so and i ran away i mean anything he knew them when i grew up and we went fishing i saw a lot of you exercise along the river to come and i was really afraid of them when you and i never thought that one day i would work with them of course im not much help yeah all the people who work here are good friends we all feel a great sense of responsibility towards our jobs. We stay in camps like brothers and sisters and we help each other and take care of each other if someone gets sick i dont know what you can do and. Yeah nag i feel better now its difficult when you find your ex are coming and its very challenging to dig one up and you have to be very careful where one might find a small you x. We report it to the team leader. If one of the team leader checks the area and knocks it with a stick in their land my name i never. Have been when we find a big you x. Or we report to the team leader and to the us allow extra time we slowly dig around the area until we can see if its a u x o or just some scrap metal. When we find you access on the site that we detonate them at the end of each day we usually find between 10. 20 new access per day. Cattle blubbered at 3 in the afternoon we block the site for detonations. I dont really commend im going to summation we carry out each day we need megaphones fines for the trigger and electric checking tools we also need explosives for the destination. What id most like to do list at night. Quantity and before destination we have to inform the us i mean office and the Village Authority at each location and i can perform. We have a working station on site informally and storage for the explosive powder. One item left to air on the end to mass. At this rate it would take 2500 years to rid laos of us. Support come on started in 1909 with funding from the government of. The sometime such and clear us i was in the region. Im in the command sokoloff and down. To my limit to get up there. As my name is made tom tom of all. In the us so loud coordinator income a one province. Our 1st role is to reduce death and injuries from your acts of accidents. Caliber bullet and. So on couldnt our 2nd town school. Is to clear more farmland for the population because they put the. Support from 1909 to today because of what we have found 116 big cluster bombs. And 12868. 00 bomb vests way it will be. 43 landmines a mini series of sound more. Than 26036 other us. And you have done so in 2016 there was an accident and brought up our district but the 2 small children died and one that was injured but theyre not. Yet. Been who own the land and im really worried about my children i dont want them to go near the bombs and i know how dangerous they are now so i dont want the children to go close or play near them. And im not sure if i would be less worried about my children if i didnt know about the danger. That now and one and yeah. I know that i would be very worried if my children found. Children dont always understand what it is really i might play with a young man allen and in the past its happened sometimes that children through run around and when there were children throwing them a treat i saw myself and if my children did that i wouldnt be able to accept it the way other families might and would i will back down and im a. 40 percent if you act say victims a children. A live. In a my name is laid 345 children 2 of them died i have 3 left. The house i told them to go dig for some crickets they went to find some crickets for lunch that was last year. He couldnt but he could from here up to here my 2nd son was injured he was injured from the knees up. There were lots of holes and hes just big enough for me to put my finger in the. Wind that was the younger boy my older son was injured here here. And here. My mom in one of my younger son the injuries were all over his body my younger son was digging in the older one was waiting for the crickets and thats why the explosion mainly hit my younger son. Son was 11 and my 2nd son was 10 and pointed. They hit a landmine just digging for crickets. Mother they took my sons to the hospital and they died there they brought my younger sons body back home to me. There have been many accidents in this region. Some people survive and some dont. The most recent case was a 10 year old child. Had injuries to his head body and both his legs and. Tried to help him by giving him oxygen. So. We tried to help him for 15 minutes but then he died. We did our best and felt terrible about the accident. Its very sad that the boy didnt survive. And. The challenge for us is that when an emergency arrives here with just a clinic. If we dont have the proper equipment and we can only provide basic treatment. If there are any journos who want to support us that is always very welcome. You know if we had more funding for us. And if we received more donations we would try to get the necessary equipment. Then be able to treat the emergency to treat these accidents. In. The United States stops bombing laos in 1973 they didnt offer aid to laos until 993. 00 to 2016 the us contributed an average of 4900000. 00 to douse the year but it spent 13300000. 00 bombing out per day in 2016 president obama was the 1st sitting u. S. President to ever visit laos so the government the people of laos thank you so much for the kind welcome the extended to me and my delegation. I am very honored to be the 1st american president to visit laos i realize that having a u. S. President in laos would have once been unimaginable 6 decades ago this country fell in the civil war your neighbors and foreign powers including the United States intervened here at the time the u. S. Government did not acknowledge americas role it was a secret war and for years the American People did not know even now Many Americans are not fully aware of this chapter in our history and its important that we remember today. Over 90 years 9641973 United States dropped more than 2000000 tons of bombs here in laos war inflicts a terrible toll especially on innocent men women children today i stand with you and acknowledging the suffering and sacrifices on all sides of that conflict i also know that the rim remnants of war continue to shatter lives here in laos so today im proud to announce a historic increase in these efforts the United States will double our annual funding to 90000000. 00 over the next 3 years to help laos 6 fans of. The u. S. Spent 113000000. 00 in just 10 days of bombing laos. By my heart and at the end on the end when we arrive to the cup center we were welcome to me told us to wait in a room and we waited and had turned. They came to tell us if we needed to go to the bathroom we should go now because mr garment was coming soon. By. That man you know after that we waited for him outside and. I had some medication with because i was afraid i would have stomach pain from not eating on time. They scanned me and stopped at my packet. And then when they got there i was a bit worried. Even though yeah right they checked in so it was medication and they said that was ok and that i could go. In and out. That mr obama said sorry and that it wasnt meant to be a war would last. And they didnt mean to harm laos. It was the vietnam war it just happened to mouse. And now. President obama just made history by being the 1st sitting u. S. President to visit laos obama has so far refused to issue a formal apology for the secret us Bombing Campaign in laos during its war on vietnam the us secretly dropped 270000000. 00 bombs on laos in hard to cut off north vietnamese supply routes again margaret this plan 90000000. 00 or so to help clean up and detonated bombs still in the country what are the details this is 90000000. 00 over 3 years to clean up whats called unexploded ordinance these are bobbies they look like little balls little kids pick them up and often become victims of these bombs that were dropped nearly 40 years ago in a war that this country was never technically a part of up to 80000000. 00 of these failed to detonate and just one percent of them have been cleared obamas 90000000. 00 for bomb clearance in laos its not enough we bombed allow so much it is officially done. Most heavily bombed country per capita in all Human History the 19000000. 00 that obama planted just at 1st sounds like a lot of numbers that everybody talks about that you brought up that are accurate as far as we know that we also know that that is the low estimate of the large numbers of airplanes that were sent to do bombing runs in vietnam for example came back over lost to bases in thailand and on their way back would randomly drop their loads in laos and we have no records wants to whatever of those lows that were dropped so we dont actually know how much was dropped in the 1st place we know its more than the numbers that we talk about experts say the president s visit shows that the us is trying to make friends with countries near china to help balance out that nations growing power in the region because of the problems and because of the lack of cleanup because of the lack of recognition it continues to kill people and trouble this very undeveloped country there are fields that cant be plowed there is land that cant be developed there are children who are Walking Around who werent even alive during the vietnam war who are missing arms and legs and limbs when we are able to come here and show respect for their culture recognize. Our history and. Point towards a future in which we Work Together we will actually have more influence well be able to promote our ideals more effectively but thats part of what weve been able to accomplish i think over the last 78 years is open up places that previously were closed and engage people in ways that were created or accused of in some future. And i want to give our perspective to all the founders from around the world. We are still facing huge challenges. That we still have to keep clearing. Up any. Support and we dont know when we will complete our mission. To meet you to objectives is to clear more farmland for villages. I mean there are still a lot of areas that we havent been able to clear yet today you know i mean we dont have the budget and we dont have enough manpower. And you know i could there are many different factors involved as including the need for teams equipment vehicles and. If we had the budget we could reach out more efficiently to other districts and provide them with. A live nothing me probably would welcome any additional donations to support us and any category of work all with equipment to. Have one side of someone and im. There i have a 19 cluster bombs in my field i just mock the area and dont find that there are definitely still you x. I was a mine rice fields morning. Was. That the government has said many times that this area is not a suitable place for us to live any more they say we should move away. They are right that there are other richer places where we could live but i have to say here we cant leave. Nobody told us to stay but we just dont want to live. Our life in our own home thats better than a rich life in someone elses after years of secrecy and they are now learning a lot about law i tell you i promise that i will do my best to make sure that all the villages will have a better life a life without. Money than the man we know that its dangerous but we have to do our best. My fellow americans play ours is far away from america but the world is small. In an attack on that night all the areas we have cleared should be safe now. Yes im tired and there are still many more bombs out there but i will do my best im not giving up and i will continue my work. Every. Day if. I want to go on all done is around the world to support us to help us clear the ground and make it safe for the daily life to get people in the villages a better life so that they will no longer be in danger from you accept what. Sure of. What unites. What divides. The man. Driving force. What binds the content to serve the better sense stories aplenty the. Spotlight on people. Some good. 30 minutes on d w. Small acts can inspire change the people making a small go africa sometimes right. Join them as they set out to save the environment learn from one another and Work Together for a Better Future for. 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