Saturday, January 16, 2010

War: the fields just keep killing and killing: Vietnam

Land mines, cluster bombs, unexploded heavies, the list goes on and on. 200 years to rid Vietnam of mines? How long for Cambodia, Serbia, Kosovo, Iraq. The cost of war is a new hell for children and their mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles... for years afterward. Can't we just stop!

the soil is very red here

where i am sitting there ‘was’ a war going on.

the soil is very red here. it has a hi iron content
there are bombs in this soil. explosives which are still killing people, maiming people, blinding people, etc. people who have/had nothing to do with any conflict between north and south vietnam, or the united states

yesterday, january 15 quang li told me 14 people have died this year in quang tri province from explosives.

bliare (exec. director of peacetrees vietnam) said it will take over 200 years to clear all the explosives in the soil in vietnam. over 200 years. 200 years. how long will this war last exactly?

besides iron i imagine there is a lot of blood as well. the soil here is very red here.

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