#legaciesofwar

[ayymmmonnayy]

i joined the lam vong circle because i want to help heal the lao community and come together to do so. as a child of laotian refugees, i had been educated at an early age of why my parents came to the states and learned more about the secret war. anytime i talk to anyone about our history, most are unaware that laos is the most bombed country per capita in history and that the bombs are STILL injuring and killing people decades after the war has ended. i’m honored to be part of the legacy that is helping to clear out the uxos and bring peace of mind for past, present and future generations. #lightingnewlegacies #legaciesofwar #moniwore https://www.instagram.com/p/CC2IRDJB-MO/?igshid=1f4tu0iy3hgf6

[brooklynsuspenders]

Last night #fashionmeetsphilanthropy #legaciesofwar #LaosinNYC #Modabox #LaosintheHouse #catch22 (at Civic Hall)

[postwarelsalvador]

Una muestra de la producción artística antes de 1992.

[janellekaz]

The skull and crossbones are the symbol for MAG, the Mines Advisory Group, which has chilling signs posted throughout the #PlainOfJars indicating areas that are not to be entered due to UXO clearance. The remnants of an ancient civilization are interspersed with 40-year old bombs and their craters. In fact, there is nowhere in this province that is safe to put a shovel in the ground unless it has been cleared of #UXO. With approximately 300 new deaths per year (mostly farmers but 40% of victims are children), Laos is still haunted by past conflict everyday. Thankfully, #MAG is here helping to make people safe from the explosives; saving lives and building futures. In the past six months alone, they've destroyed almost 5,000 cluster munitions and unexploded ordinances in Laos. Some facts: -Laos was declared neutral, therefore the 580,944 bombing missions by the US were "secret." -270,000,000 cluster munitions were dropped. -30% of these are still waiting to be detonated. @MAGsaveslives #legaciesofwar #banclusterbombs #xiengkhouang #laos #motogypsy

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Malisamai, Minnesota

My very first summer job was picking strawberries, like everybody else in the Hmong community, with my parents and my cousins. I was 12, I don't remember much but you know, when you're young it seems so fun because you're picking berries, but it was probably really hard work because you had to bend down and pick so much at a time.

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Kingsavanh, Washington D.C.

My first summer job was in San Francisco when I was a foreign student at U.C. Berkley, studying political science. I came the United States in 1973 from Laos, I'm not a refugee. My first professional job was a bilingual social worker, I helped refugee resettlement for 25 years, and then I retired. Then I became a Lao language instructor at Foreign Service State Department, in fact I still do that right now, and I've been broadcasting at Voices of America for 3 years.

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State Representative Mike Honda, California

Can you tell us one thing you know about Laos?

One of the most, green, lush bamboo-filled, countries - just absolutely breath-taking.