[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: "UXO Tour brings foreigners face to face with bombing devastation in Quang Tri, " Vietnam

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

UXO Tour brings foreigners face to face with bombing devastation in  
Quang Tri

By Nguyen Phuc
Thanh Nien News (Vietnam)
August 6, 2014

Quang Tri - A group of backpackers panned their cameras across a  
remote commune in Quang Tri Province, clicking away, then turned to  
do the same to a pile of sandbags placed over a soon-to-be detonated  
piece of war-era ordnance.

Soon the group was whisked away to watch the climactic explosion set  
off by a foreign-funded de-mining team.

The Quang Tri UXO Tour has run for two years now as a partnership  
between the Norwegian-funded project RENEW and the Vietnam  
Backpackers Hostels, which now operates three hostels in Hanoi and Hue.

Restoring the Environment and Neutralizing the Effects of the War  
(RENEW) was founded in 2001 and is now primarily funded by Norwegian  
People’s Aid.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thanhniennews.com/travel/uxo-tour-brings-foreigners-face- 
to-face-with-bombing-devastation-in-quang-tri-29528.html

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