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The Most Heavily Bombed Country on Earth
It's not Japan. It isn't Germany. And it's not Vietnam, either. This is the story of the nation devastated by the so-called 'Secret War' - when it was relentlessly bombarded with 2 million tons of ordnance - and the people who are still living with the consequences today.
Main Source:
Rhodes, Ben, The World As It Is (London: 2018).
Additional Sources:
Becker, Rachel A., Video Clip: Meet the Giant Rats that are Sniffing Out Landmines, National Geographic (7 October 2015). Available at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/10/151006-giant-rats-landmines-cambodia-science-animals/ [Accessed: 02/20201].
Boland, Rosita, Death from Below in the World’s Most Bombed Country, The Irish Times (13 May 2017). Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/death-from-below-in-the-world-s-most-bombed-country-1.3078351 [Accessed: 02/2021].
De Sam Lazaro, Fred, Video Clip: How Giant African Rats are Helping Uncover Deadly Landmines in Cambodia, PBS (10 September 2019). Available at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-giant-african-rats-are-helping-uncover-deadly-land-mines-in-cambodia [Accessed: 02/2021].
O’Connor, Juliette, Bombies: Legacies of the Secret War in Laos, The London School of Economics. Retrieved from https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2020/02/11/bombies-legacies-of-the-secret-war-in-laos/ [Accessed: 02/2021].
Rotondi, Jessica Pearce, Why Laos Has Been Bombed More Than Any Other Country, History Channel. Retrieved from https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war [Accessed: 02/2021].
Unknown, Geneva Accords on Laos, The New York Times (7 March 1970). Digitized article retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/07/archives/geneva-accords-on-laos.html [Accessed: 02/2021].
Unknown, Laos: Barack Obama regrets 'biggest bombing in history', BBC News. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37286520 [Accessed: 02/2021].
Unknown, Secret War in Laos, Legacies of War. Retrieved from http://legaciesofwar.org/about-laos/secret-war-laos/ [Accessed: 02/2021].
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By Simone BalaniIt's not Japan. It isn't Germany. And it's not Vietnam, either. This is the story of the nation devastated by the so-called 'Secret War' - when it was relentlessly bombarded with 2 million tons of ordnance - and the people who are still living with the consequences today.
Main Source:
Rhodes, Ben, The World As It Is (London: 2018).
Additional Sources:
Becker, Rachel A., Video Clip: Meet the Giant Rats that are Sniffing Out Landmines, National Geographic (7 October 2015). Available at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/10/151006-giant-rats-landmines-cambodia-science-animals/ [Accessed: 02/20201].
Boland, Rosita, Death from Below in the World’s Most Bombed Country, The Irish Times (13 May 2017). Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/death-from-below-in-the-world-s-most-bombed-country-1.3078351 [Accessed: 02/2021].
De Sam Lazaro, Fred, Video Clip: How Giant African Rats are Helping Uncover Deadly Landmines in Cambodia, PBS (10 September 2019). Available at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-giant-african-rats-are-helping-uncover-deadly-land-mines-in-cambodia [Accessed: 02/2021].
O’Connor, Juliette, Bombies: Legacies of the Secret War in Laos, The London School of Economics. Retrieved from https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2020/02/11/bombies-legacies-of-the-secret-war-in-laos/ [Accessed: 02/2021].
Rotondi, Jessica Pearce, Why Laos Has Been Bombed More Than Any Other Country, History Channel. Retrieved from https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war [Accessed: 02/2021].
Unknown, Geneva Accords on Laos, The New York Times (7 March 1970). Digitized article retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/07/archives/geneva-accords-on-laos.html [Accessed: 02/2021].
Unknown, Laos: Barack Obama regrets 'biggest bombing in history', BBC News. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37286520 [Accessed: 02/2021].
Unknown, Secret War in Laos, Legacies of War. Retrieved from http://legaciesofwar.org/about-laos/secret-war-laos/ [Accessed: 02/2021].