The security of all Southeast Asia will be endangered if laos 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 on 80. 8 hours and i am. One of those days the american airplanes flew in night parts of lines they flew back and forth and dropped bombs like crazy im known as they didnt care about anything i knew nothing and all we could do was wait for our deaths to come. 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 minutes 24 hours a day for 9 years more than were dropped on germany and japan. And during world war 2. Bodies the meek on the other end but obviously of lifestyle and understandably increased the danger along the Northern Front heres thailand. Already your project of love and respect for your talent and the fact that it isnt handed over the war effort in laos to the cia. This nation to the entire peninsula is threatened by red military takeover as it was last may. Americas intervention here in laws was the secret to the American People. The people love who suffered tremendously for the world you. Should know this is the 1st. Laos is littered with as many as 80000000 bondys or bomblets based small signs bombs found inside cluster bombs. Up to 18000000 of these failed states night and just one percent of them being clean. 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. The least of their stories. Now oh wow. We didnt know that they would come to bomb us make double what 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. Tell advantage was over here during a war right later we went to the forest we went over k. The couldnt stay as the planes bombed the cave heavily by by you tom what i mean long money just the sound of an explosion could kill you. And anthony got sued or 8. Times that one that only i see my family name is strongly d. Im a farmer. I was born in 1955 im not quite sure how old i am. Who wouldnt want that when i got out someone said im 61 but i dont know if thats true. In 1965 to be 52. 00 planes started bombing the country running. Got me there were times that the planes didnt bomb a woman. Whom i knew that got me sometimes a full day would pass without around. We moved into this cave to join my grandfather. Well how why did my left leave now you would have me there. Why would i cant hand them to one man during the one time there were days of very heavy bombing. Some i and other bombs dropped from airplanes beginning in 196510 and that continued in 196667 and through 969 the power the bombs were boring from the had planes on to the ground. But im going to convoy are allowed to all 3 different kinds of things happening. And thats how the top 10 educate only had one entrance we couldnt take shelter that we were afraid that wed be trapped inside the enemy state on that mountain back then the mountain was higher than where they were on the mountain until it can be flat no one survived that. 6 i heard. The u. S. Dropped one plane load of bombs on average every 8 minutes 24 hours a day financing is. A a. Random of under 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 how much like dollar were at home going to lead us to 1st come to drop a light marker then they started bombing when that 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 or next to the river over there in the. Rhythm. Her i had 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 crap you just had to dig with your family until the hole was large enough for everyone to fit and we were going to families in one whole. Day they bombed my house i saw the village mark the monk went to dig a hole in the mountain had been for fighter jet ski really fast and we had to run for our lives they dropped many bombs in our area and we had to run and hide in the hall and the little one i almost didnt survive that day the bombing was not really heavy there no bombs fell like rain on world. Economy. Yeah well my father died in 1969. Right now let me after my father died we going table 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 by the only one that after my father died we stayed with my grandfather in a state of what ill let you know how many. When i see the children day and think about the past. 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. Whenever i come back here i think about that difficult time when i lost my father i never thought about life or anything else during the. Think about the difficult situation we were in during the war. When i look at the world today. I never thought we would have electricity we have enough clothes and other things to wear and use. We have the tractors who work in the rice fields and. We have cars motorbikes and light to see at night. He let me i know you know. Just when the United States is gradually pulling out of vietnam there is a rush of concern that laos may become another gap not not so says the administration and says why well the president will let it happen thats what. Really we have learned one lesson that is there were not going to avoid any. Major major wars. In the mainland of asia again were not going to send american troops there and we certainly are going to do a mess we have the American Public in the congress behind this there are no american combat forces involved we have been providing Logistical Support and some training for the new government in order to avoid laos falling under communist domination as far as american manpower in laos is concerned there are none there at the present time on a combat basis. The last bunch of soloman they came around noon. When you had the vietnamese on the clash 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 a time they dropped bombs and one long line as they flew boom boom boom we werent even able to escape them in the cave. But we just had to run and hide for our lives. They kept dropping bombs until they were satisfied and went back. They didnt care what they were bombing everything was gone. The only thing that was left were craziness some courses were really brick. Life had no meaning during the war you hoped you would survive see the world and your family again. But i dont mean during the war we lived in the forest we couldnt live in the village because it was all on fire when youre mean it was terrible destruction from the bombs and thats how i learned the pillars of the houses remained. In 1975 we returned to the village where we still live. 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 it are now trying to clear the mines but they will never be able to finish 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 flight my husband was the 1st to go back to the field but he was digging and he had a cluster bomb i kept hearing it exploded and he died immediately and 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 you know. Yes. There are currently 80000000 unexploded american bombs in laos enough to cover 83 american football fields. Im nailed on the last of the war ended we moved to the village there was so many unexploded bombs right there was a us so in every bush. Born alive oh yes there are still many of them around and they are still active. So im very disturbed it explodes. Now many people were killed by them as they talk in a rice fields. Without me and i can manage the bombs where in every corner of our rice fields after the war ended i was always careful i never used hose to dig in my fields never. In the cost of arms or very rusty but if you hit one it explodes straight away and they last for a really long time phone time and i. Am yes. Yes. You. Do or. You know file this is my daughter. Sit down you too tall he can see you. I thought i had come in. This is my husband. He can see you to talk to. Some i and her husband both work for you ex over lao louses National Bomb clearing organization. Of those my name is on size encounter on im 38 years old now i work with us so low income a one province. 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 in theater wants to help the villagers have less risk in their everyday lions who 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 my and 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 they never let that what we do each day depends on the location of the sari and when there are a lot of crazes 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 you x. Or units inside. And after my Training Like 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. 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 the villagers to be able to go about their daily lives and safety and that. And i level i want to designate all the remaining u. S. Owes in 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 established in laos a peaceful country. A country 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 can be established under the present very difficult circumstances than any band and i have a man when i was young around 10 years old i went with my mother to collect. And we found a new axe i was in the bushes and i was about to dig to find some bamboo and well i think then i saw the you x. So and i ran away i mean anything he knew them when i grew up and we went fishing i saw a lot of your exercise along the river too. I was really afraid of them when you and i never thought that one day i would work with them because im not much up here 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. Eat. You nag at you about how its difficult when you find your eggs are mechanic and its very challenging to dig one out and you have to be very careful. Where one might fire small you act so we report it to the team leader. Of another team leader checks the area and marks it with a stick in am i mean my 911 happen when we find a big you access we report to the team leader and to the u. S. Experts we slowly dig around the area until we can see if its a new xo or just some scrap metal. When we find your expertise on the site that we detonate them at the end of each day. We usually find a tree in 10 and 20 year excise per day. Just. Cattle blubber about 3 in the afternoon we block the site for detonations. I dont really eat them and im going to some nation we carry out each day we need megaphones friends for the trigger and electric checking tools we also need explosives for the destination. What id most like to do is detonate. The. Quantity and before detonation we have to inform the us im a novice on the Village Authority of each location and before. We have a working station on site. And storage for the explosive powder. When writing a letter to air on. The mass. At this rate it would take 2500 years to rid laos of us. Support coming one started in 1909 with funding from the government. To some point such and clear u. S. I was in the region. Some people article some government. A mile or more to put up there. My name is made tomtom of on them. In the us coordinator in come on province. Our 1st role is to reduce death and injuries from us so accidents. Down the bottom. So all men who are in our 2nd towns. Is to clear more farmland for the population become the. Support from 1909 to today but we have found 116 big cluster bombs. And 12868. 00 on this way it will be. 43. 00 landmines a minimum of sound more. Than 26036 other us. And your lungs will be guy in 2016 there was an accident and brought up our district with the 2 small children died and one that was injured but give milk or not. Been who owned 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. 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 with alan and in the past its happened sometimes that children turn 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 leave it out among the. 40 percent of you x. A victims a children. In a my name is laid 345 children 2 of them died i have 3 left. Oh how i told them to go dig for some crickets they went to find some crickets for lunch that was last year. Couldnt the picu from here up to here my 2nd son was injured yeah he was injured from the knees up. There were lots of holes in his just big enough for me to put my finger in them. And that was the younger boy my older son was injured here here. And here. In 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. Just son was 11 and my 2nd son was 10 and pony. They hit a landmine just digging for crickets. They took my sons to the hospital and they died there they brought my younger sons body back home to me. They have been many accidents in this region. Some people survive and some dont. The most recent case was a 10 year old child village. 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. So its very sad that the boy didnt survive. Could challenge for us is that when an emergency arrives here we just a clinic. In 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 in laos and if we received more donations we would try to get the necessary equipment. Then we would be able to treat the emergencies to treat these accidents. The United States stopped bombing laos in 1973 they didnt offer aid to laos until 993. 00 to 2016 the u. S. Contributed an average of 4900000. 00 to douse a year but had spent 13300000. 00 bombing ouse a day in 2016 president obama was the 1st sitting u. S. President to ever visit. To 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 i realize that having a u. S. President in laos would have once been unimaginable 6 decades ago this country fell into 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 9 years 19641973 the 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 los so today im proud to announce a historic increase in the. United states will double our annual funding to 90000000. 00 over the next 3 years to help ploughs its fans of. The u. S. Spent 130000000. 00 in just 10 days of bombing laos. By heart and at the end guy me and money arrive to the copes center we were welcomed to my told us to wait in a room we wait on had drinks they came to tell us if we needed to go to the bathroom we should go now because mr obama was coming soon. And they havent. Got by the family now happening now after that we waited for him outside. I have 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. But no money but i did i was a bit worried i mean i may have another guy they checked in so it was medication but having it that they said that was ok and that i could go. In and out of the ground and that mr obama said sorry and that it wasnt meant to be a war but last. Thing they didnt mean to harm laos. And that it was the vietnam war it just happened in laos vietnam that. It makes the 31 second now the 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 u. S. Bombing campaign in laos during its war on vietnam the u. S. Secretly dropped 270000000 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 bomb these 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 laos so much it is officially the most heavily bombed country per capita in all of Human History the 19000000. 00 obama pledged 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 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 then your point towards a future in which we can Work Together we will actually have more influence will be able to promote our ideals for effectiveness but thats part of what weve been able to accomplish i think over the last 78 years open up places that previously were closed and engage people in ways that were created for your students and future. I want to give our perspective to all the funders from around the world. We are still facing huge challenges. But we still have to keep clearing. That money. And i support them and we dont know when we will complete our mission. Immediate objective is to clear more farmland for villages. There but there are still a lot of areas that we havent been able to clear yet. You know dont have the budget and we dont have enough manpower. There are many different factors involved including the need for teams equipment vehicles and donors but if we had the budget we could reach out more efficiently to other districts and provide them with help that. We would welcome any additional donations to support us in any category of work or with equipment. Parable of the 19 cluster bombs in my field i just mock the area and dont find that there are definitely still you x. I was in my rice fields morning. Was that the government has said many times that this area is not a suitable place for us to live anymore he said we should move away. And right that there are other rich of 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 and someone elses. Years of secrecy and theyre now learning a lot about love 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 you x. Hours. And now we know that its dangerous but we have to do our best. Michael americans laos is far away from america but the world is small. In the dark but at night all the areas we have cleared to be safe now. Yes im tired and theres still many more bombs out there but i will do my best im not giving up and i will continue my work. And work. If. I want to go on all done as 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 access. Thank you. A capital in crisis the streets are empty. The majority of businesses are closed and families are confined to within their own 4 walls. Life in berlin during the corona crisis. 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