From left, IRCO executive director Lee Po Cha and ... says she saw her father care for victims of UXO accidents. Her most vivid childhood memory of her time in Laos took place when she arrived ...

With approximately 30 percent of the cluster bombs dropped by the US failing to detonate, tens of millions of unexploded ordnance (UXO) remain buried in Lao soil. Since 1964, an estimated 50,000 ...

An international effort is underway in rural areas of Laos, where 80 percent of the population lives, to remove the bombs.