On War - Legacy of War - 19 Jan 09 - Part 1

The tiny country of Laos was never officially at war with the United States, but it has suffered terribly nonetheless.

It is among the most bombed countries in the world after the US dropped tonnes of bombs during its secret war in the 1960s and 70s.

Josh Rsuhing finds out how these bombs are still exploding and joins efforts to clear the huge amounts of unexploded ordnance.

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[yihanvue1]

Ya's want to know why Laos is the most bomb country in the world. Why Laos is a small country but been bomb most. It's is because the Laos PDR bring million and million communists soldiers to Laos. Laos is a small country. they dont have to bring that many soldiers to fight again the loyal king in Laos and the Hmong. Here are those communists soldiers had dies there are the Vietnamese soldiers, the vietcong, Chinese soldiers, North Korea, Russian and fuken Cuba suck balls. They luck most of the

[meejka]

hey people who produced this video .....why are you guys so worry about bomb killing the lao people ......what you guy need to worry is the HMONG people in the jungle of LAOS where every single minute they are being kill, torture, or rape by a Laos soldier ......you guys should do a video about a group of people who helped you guy the united state during vietnam war and secret war in lao .....Care more about HMONG then LAO people .....they are not being hunted down like HMONG PEOPLE .....

[Feodore100]

Why feel sad? The Chinese, Viets were violating the Geneva treaty of 1962 that Laos would be neutral and ended the civil war. China and Vietnam wanted Laos as a colony and they didn't give a damn about the treaty. Vietnam had 67,000 soldiers fighting in Laos from 1960-1975 against the Hmong of 15,000. If no bombs were used the Hmong would have been easily ran over. Tell Vietminhs and Chings to clean them up!! There are more Viets and Chinese in Laos today than laotian.

[Jasmine4153]

this makes me so sad :(. This is one of the consequences of the wars.

[xiengmai111997]

Very sad to see this film, hearts my feeling about Laos

Kids should go to school but they endup picks the metal to sell

for their income!

Good film and story

[ogjimkenobi]

Agreed.

[stopgenocideingaznow]

this is one of the best documentaries !

Al Jaz sould bring it all days!

this never lose actuality =(

[stvh1]

They should of hung "Nixon" !

[micahgee]

Yes!!!

I loooove AlJazeera =-D

[micahgee]

Who knew AlJazeera was actually good Journalism =P

I watch it everyday !!!

I consider it some of the best Journalism in the world