KPL News - Laos plans to scrap off the UXOs on 200,000 ha land by 2020, said a senoir official.
By 2015, more than 12,500 ha of contaminated areas will be free, of which 11,800 hectares will be able to use for agricultural production and other 600 hectares for other farms of development.
Over 50,000 Lao people have been fallen to UXOs victims from 1964-2008, of which 60 percent were killed and 40 percent injured.
The Cluster Munitions is a convention for prohibiting all use, stockpiling, production and transfer of Cluster Munitions.
Lao government is focusing on clearance of cluster munitions in Laos to make the safe lands for people to farm, said Mr. Phoukhiew.
Over 2 million tonnes of ordnance was dropped on Laos between 1964.
Laos is the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita, after over 270 million cluster munitions were dropped on the country during the war from 1964 to 1973.
He said that more than 80 million items of cluster munitions are scattered in 14 out of 17 provinces of countrywide out of 87,000 square kilometers or about 1/3 of total area in the country.
41 districts out of 46 poorest districts in Laos have UXO contamination, according the National Survey of UXO victim and accident phase 1. Of this 20,000 people, some 13,500 lost a limb, 25% of total casualties were in Savannakhet province, and 12% of total casualties were in Xiengkhoung province.
Over the last decade (1996-2008) there have been approximately 300 new casualties annually, but it fell down to 117 people in the period of 2009-2010.
UXO/Mine action operations, over the period 1996 to August 2011, have 1,315,433 items of UXO destroyed, including 6,154 big bombs, 537088 cluster sub-munitions, 6,609 mines and 765,582 other UXO items.
Over 27,400 hectares of land cleared of this figure, of which 19,138 hectares were use for agricultural and 8,297 hectares were use for development.
By 2015, more than 12,500 ha of contaminated areas will be free, of which 11,800 hectares will be able to use for agricultural production and other 600 hectares for other farms of development.
Over 50,000 Lao people have been fallen to UXOs victims from 1964-2008, of which 60 percent were killed and 40 percent injured.
The Cluster Munitions is a convention for prohibiting all use, stockpiling, production and transfer of Cluster Munitions.
Lao government is focusing on clearance of cluster munitions in Laos to make the safe lands for people to farm, said Mr. Phoukhiew.
Over 2 million tonnes of ordnance was dropped on Laos between 1964.
Laos is the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita, after over 270 million cluster munitions were dropped on the country during the war from 1964 to 1973.
He said that more than 80 million items of cluster munitions are scattered in 14 out of 17 provinces of countrywide out of 87,000 square kilometers or about 1/3 of total area in the country.
41 districts out of 46 poorest districts in Laos have UXO contamination, according the National Survey of UXO victim and accident phase 1. Of this 20,000 people, some 13,500 lost a limb, 25% of total casualties were in Savannakhet province, and 12% of total casualties were in Xiengkhoung province.
Over the last decade (1996-2008) there have been approximately 300 new casualties annually, but it fell down to 117 people in the period of 2009-2010.
UXO/Mine action operations, over the period 1996 to August 2011, have 1,315,433 items of UXO destroyed, including 6,154 big bombs, 537088 cluster sub-munitions, 6,609 mines and 765,582 other UXO items.
Over 27,400 hectares of land cleared of this figure, of which 19,138 hectares were use for agricultural and 8,297 hectares were use for development.
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