In the 1960s and 1970s, during the "secret war" launched by the CIA against Laos, in order to blockade the Vietnamese Communist Supply Line "Ho Chi Minh Trail" in southern Laos, the US military dropped about 270 million bombs and left countless unexploded bombs, which have been damaged to this day. Let's listen to the voices of the survivors of the US bombing.
In the stranglehold of the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" by the US military, ChuanYuan Province, an old revolutionary area in northern Laos, bordered Vietnam and was the main crossing area of the "Ho Chi Minh Trail", thus becoming one of the provinces most damaged by Laos in the secret war of the US military, countless buildings were destroyed, the people were displaced, and many small towns and villages disappeared forever on the map.
Songga Pollapa was a survivor of the massive bombing by the US military and is now an old man in flower armor. At the time of the misfortune, Polapa was a young man, and he was blinded and blew off his arms because he was not able to avoid the bombing in time. The lifelong disability caused by the bomb made it impossible for him to start a family like a normal person, lost his labor force, and could not take care of himself, and for decades he had to live in his brother's home, relying on his brother's family, which was not rich.
U.S. bombing survivor Soanga Poolapa: Before I could get into the pit, the bomb fell, my father died, I was injured, my brother was injured. I was disabled, my hands were gone, my eyes were blind.
Kanton Ong am ka, political commissar of the military command of Kawakwan Province: During the period when U.S. imperialism dropped bombs on Kawakwan Province in Laos, people could only dig pits in the mountainous forests to avoid bombing or hide in caves.
The tens of millions of unexploded ordnance of many models left behind by the US military, some of which were cleared out, were placed in the bomb exhibition hall in Chuanquan Province, which is the strongest evidence of the atrocities committed by the US military against the Lao people in that year.
Sichuan National Unexploded Ordnance Clearance Project Senior Bomb Disposal Expert Sai Sa Meng: This is a BLU-61 bomb, which is extremely lethal and will cause combustion when it explodes. This is the BLU-26 bomb, there are 760 small bomblets in the shell, this is also a cluster bomb. This is the BLU-63 bomb, the type of bomb that Chuanyuan found the most, this is a giant bomb, the lethal range is very large, the lethality can cover a range of 30 meters, and the depth can reach more than 10 meters.
At present, the Lao government's "unexploded ordnance" clean-up work has been carried out for more than 20 years, but countless US bombs are still scattered in the mountain fields of Laos, bringing endless nightmares to the Lao people.
Ben heng Surisai, vice chairman of the Management Committee for the Handling of The Problem of Unexploded Ordnance in Sichuan Province: Explosion accidents continue to occur, many times a year, and the number of people who are injured and killed is very large.
Commander of the Laos Unexploded Ordnance Clearance Force, Pong Cho Olathom: The large number of unexploded ordnance left in Laos poses a huge threat to agricultural production, especially to farmers. Crops such as rice, cassava, corn and other crops are at risk in the fields, and a large number of people die from unexploded bombs every year.
Source: CCTV news client