Bomb clearance experts run a detector over land on the Plain of Jars in northern Laos

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The UXO Lao teams are clearing land for farmers in a deperately poor country that does not have enough safe land to feed its rising population Fifteen of its 18 provinces are contamined with unexploded bombs mines and other ordnance from the illegal secret war waged against them by US forces during the Vietnam War era

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