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 To purchase a video of BOMBIES for home or educational use, contact Bullfrog Films, 800-543-FROG, FAX: 610-370-1978, video@bullfrogfilms.com Websites Lao National Unexploded Ordnance Program The website of UXO LAO, the Lao government organization responsible for all bomb clearance work in Laos, features an explanation of the impact of cluster bombs on the people and the land. Illustrated maps and accompanying text explain what UXO LAO is doing to clear ordnance province by province. Mines Advisory Group Featuring their work in Laos, MAG's Laos section includes a timeline of events, community awareness facts and an explanation of their clearance teams' methods of removing cluster bombs. Mennonite Central Committee cluster bomb page This comprehensive site by the Mennonite Central Committee includes nearly a dozen reports on cluster bombs and personal stories and photos of cluster bomb victims in Laos. Human Rights Watch document on cluster bombs A page compiling all of Human Rights Watch's work on cluster bombs, including reports on Afghanistan. Jhai Foundation The Jhai Foundation works with Lao villagers on education, health, technology and economic development issues. International Committee to Ban Landmines Co-laureates of the1997 Nobel Peace Prize, the ICBL aims to get the Mine Ban Treaty ratified and implemented by every country. The site includes their statement on cluster bombs, updates on landmine events around the world and an annual report on the global landmine situation. Books and Articles Branfman, Fred. Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life Under an Air War. New York: Harper & Row. 1972. Castle, Timothy N. At War In the Shadow of Vietnam: U.S. Military Aid to The Royal Lao Government, 1955-1975. New York: Columbia University Press. 1993. Handicap International. Living With UXO: National Survey on the Socio-Economic Impact of UXO in LAO PDR. Vientiane, Laos: UXO LAO. 1997. Littauer, Ralph and Norman Uphoff. The Air War in Indochina. Air War Study Group, Cornell University. Boston: Beacon Press. 1972. McGrath, Rae. Cluster Bombs: The Military Effectiveness and Impact on Civilians of Cluster Bombs. London: UK Working Group on Landmines. 2000. Distributed in the U.S. by the Mennonite Central Committee. Akron, Pennsylvania. Peachey, Titus and Virgil Wiebe. Clusters of Death. Akron, Pennsylvania. Mennonite Central Committee. 2000. Prokosch, Eric. The Technology of Killing: A Military and Political History of Cluster Weapons. London and New Jersey: Zed Books. 1995. Warner, Roger. Shooting the Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos. South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press. 1999. Jenkins, Simon. "Cluster Bombs: These are Landmines by Any Other Name." The Times of London. October 26, 2001. |
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