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Sunday Apr 27

Wartime cluster bombs still reap deadly harvest in Laos

“I was on the ground. I looked at the others. One had been ripped in half. One was missing his legs. The third man's eyes were gone and his insides had come out.”

A man shapes a ball of C4 plastic explosive like a child with playdough, carefully inserts it into a hole at the side of the road, attaches an electric detonator, and walks away. via The Age

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