Phonsavan - American Bombs - Laos - (13) Travel Photography, Travel Photo and Images

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Phonsavan - American Bombs

Unexploded munitions, land mines and cluster bombs, left behind by nearly 100 years of war, cause every years a huge number of accidental injury and death. In 1969, during the Secret War in Laos by the US Air Force and the CIA, thousands of bombs were bombed in Laos, erasing many small villages and forcing the population to live in caves.