(Vietnam, 11 March 2008) In the village Thin Tun Lup in
Kam Lo district of Quang Tri province, the inhabitants claimed that more than 300
people had been killed or injured by bomblets from cluster bombs and other
unexploded ordnance since the war.
Villagers living in areas affected
by duds from cluster munitions often find that they are confronted with enforced risk
taking: either they continue to live in poverty, or they risk injury and death by
working on the contaminated land. Norwegian People’s Aid’s analysis of US
bombing data show that at the very least 600,000 duds from cluster munitions were left on or in the ground just in Cam Lo district in Vietnam. Boys and men are the highest
risk group for accidents caused by bomblets from cluster bombs. Of all the bomblet
victims recorded by the organization RENEW just in Quang Tri province in ,males make up 80.1 per cent of the casualties