[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: "A new approach to ridding Vietnam of unexploded ordnance"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

A new approach to ridding Vietnam of unexploded ordnance

By Wyatt Olson
Stars and Stripes
May 6, 2012

QUANG TRI PROVINCE, Vietnam - When government officials here talk  
about ridding the country of unexploded ordnance left from the war  
with America, the timeframe is stunning.

In January, for example, the Vietnam Defense Ministry’s Engineer  
Corps estimated it would take about 300 years to clear it all.

Such pronouncements are gloomy reminders for a country that has  
experienced devastating losses from unexploded ordnance, or UXO.  
Since 1975, about 40,000 people have died from explosions, and 66,000  
have been injured and maimed, according to the Vietnam Ministry of  
Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/a-new-approach-to-ridding-vietnam- 
of-unexploded-ordnance-1.176497

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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