[CPEO-MEF] Deadly UXO in Vietnam

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Long after modern wars "end," their weapons continue to impact the
nations where they are fought. A November 20, 1999 Associated Press
story reports that an 81 mm artillery shell exploded last week at the
site of a former U.S. base in southern Vietnam, killing six children and
a 60-yeard old woman. The article doesn't say whether the ordnance was
of U.S. origin.

The AP says, "The [Vietnamese] government said recently that 38,248
people were killed by unexploded ordnance in the first 23 years after
the end of the war and that there still are 300,000 tones of unexploded
ordnance around, about 2 percent of the bomb, land mines and artillery
shells fired by U.S. forces during the war."


Lenny
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/968-1126
lsiegel@cpeo.org
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