[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: Ordnance contamination in Vietnam

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report: Land mine contamination vast in Vietnam

By BEN STOCKING
Associated Press
July 31, 2009

HANOI, Vietnam - More than one-third of the land in six central 
Vietnamese provinces remains contaminated with land mines and unexploded 
bombs from the Vietnam War, according to a study released Friday.

Nearly 35 years after the war's end, Vietnamese civilians are still 
routinely killed and maimed by leftover mines and other explosives. 
Vietnam estimates that more than 42,000 people have been killed in such 
accidents since 1975.

The study by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and Vietnam's 
ministry of defense provides the most detailed information to date about 
the amount and location of unexploded ordinance littering a region that 
saw some of the heaviest fighting and bombardment during the war.

The survey was the result of close collaboration between the United 
States and Vietnam on one of the most sensitive legacies of the conflict.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g1fYeOKeqV8ZtD5bO79e31LABu6gD99P8BSG0

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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