Countries that have signed on to a new international treaty banning cluster munitions are meeting in Laos this week. But many producers of these dangerous weapons haven't signed on to the ban. Meanwhile, Laos is still cleaning up its cluster munitions and the country still suffers civilian casualties from the bombs, nearly 40 years after the United States dropped them there. With Steve Goose of HRW and the Cluster Munition Coalition and Channapha Khamvongsa of Legacies of War.
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This six-year-old boy lost his left eye after playing with a submunition he found near his home in Laos. The United States dropped nearly 97 million submunitions in Laos during the Vietnam War.
Countries that have signed on to a new international treaty banning cluster munitions are meeting in Laos this week. But many producers of these dangerous weapons haven't signed on to the ban. Meanwhile, Laos is still cleaning up its cluster munitions and the country still suffers civilian casualties from the bombs, nearly 40 years after the United States dropped them there. With Steve Goose of HRW and the Cluster Munition Coalition and Channapha Khamvongsa of Legacies of War.
