[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: World War II unexploded ordnance in Solomon Islands

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Calls for international community to clean up unexploded ordnance in Solomon Islands

By Stefan Armbruster
SBS News (Australia)
August 28, 2022

Eighty years after the Second World War, Solomon Islands is demanding former enemies Japan and the United States clean up their deadly unexploded bombs. Blasts from thousands of remaining unexploded ordnance, or UXOs, are still killing and maiming people in this former Pacific battlefield. Victims and their families receive little or no government support or compensation – and want the owners of the deadly weapons to take responsibility.

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For a link to the recording, go to
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/calls-for-international-community-to-clean-up-unexploded-ordnance-in-solomon-islands/vjbtskswx

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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