Dispatch: US Contradictions on Landmines and Cluster Munitions
“I was not born yet,” the Laotian child says after the reporter asks him if he knows where the unexploded submunition, lodged in the ground near his village, came from. Although only a child, the boy knows that cluster munition remnants are dangerous decades after their use. He didn’t touch the device, but did report it to a visiting mine clearance organization for destruction. The boy is one of the voices in a new VICE media documentary on the deadly legacy created by cluster munitions and landmines in Southeast Asia.