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Old Bombs Shatter Laotian Women’s Lives

By: Karen J. Coates | August 21, 2010

War-era ordnance kills and maims hundreds of Laotian villagers each year. Eighty-five percent of victims are men, leaving numerous women to fend for their families.

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