Lao PDR - Xieng Khouang Province - The Women of UCT6 unexploded ordnance clearance team
Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974.The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. Before clearance of UXO can take place the site has to cleared of scrub so the lanes can be created and the metal detector doesn’t get stuck. The photograph is of technician, Bouakham Bounmavilay, holding a pile of scrub she has just cut with a large knife.
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