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News channel or source: https://time.com/archive/6951872/how-deadly-weapons-continue-to-rule-daily-life/
Published on: Thursday 30 December 2010
At the Vienthong primary school in Laos’ Xieng Khouang province, six students take out hand puppets made from clothing scraps and colored felt. Their audience — a class of around 15 children ages 3 to ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » People: Inside the Laos villages where people build homes, canoes, and tools out of unexploded bombs left over from the Vietnam War
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Published on: Thursday 28 April 2022
Decades after the Vietnam War ended, there are around 80 million unexploded bombs left in Laos. Despite the danger they pose, some villagers use the bombs to build their homes. A woman poses at the ...