United States dropped over 2 million tons of bombs on Laos; 80 million unexploded ordnance remains. Continue funding to clear ...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the commencement of a major strand in the US’s secret war, Operation Barrel Roll – a nine-year US bombing campaign that would see Laos becoming the most ...
How could seemingly rational people—Americans like me—imagine they could win the war in Vietnam by subjecting Laos to such indiscriminate destruction? When I wrote that a secret war was being ...
Though Hmong and Laotian soldiers still won't have access to many federal benefits, a new bill would recognize them as ...
Wisconsin Public Radio During the Vietnam War, the American military secretly recruited fighters in Laos to aid in a fight ...
The neutralization and partition of the kingdom of Laos stipulated by the Geneva Accords of 1962 has served Hanoi’s war against South Viet Nam admirably. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail through the ...
Asia Society Northern California and the Japan Policy Research Institute hosted veteran journalists Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern for a program on November 12 looking at the “secret” U.S. bombing of ...
Obama has an opportunity to address the past by stepping up U.S. efforts to remove unexploded ordnance in Laos.
VIENTIANE (Laotian Times): Laos government's promise to fight against the many corruption issues in the country is picking up steam. Recentlt, the Oudomxay Criminal Court handed jail sentences to ...
In the shadows of the Vietnam War, the CIA organized a secret war in neighboring Laos to prevent communism from spreading deeper into Southeast Asia. The Hmong fought for the U.S. — and for ...