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Join April Actions against Cluster Bombs

Evacuation from Vietnam in 1975
Credit: Corbis Sygma

On April 30, 1975, Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces, finally ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. But the U.S. left millions of weapons behind that continue to kill.

Between 1964 and 1973, the United States dropped 90 million cluster bomblets on Vietnam's neighbor, Laos, in 580,000 bombing missions-equivalent to one planeload every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 years.

Thirty-three years later, more than 10 million cluster submunitions still litter the land, waiting to explode in the hand of a curious child or at the foot of a subsistence farmer.

I want to be part of the April actions against cluster bombs

Photo: Luis Arnal. Sponsored by the American Task Force for Lebanon

What You Can Do

Organize an Event

• Show the movie "Bombies" and invite your friends.
• Partner with other faith groups in your community.
• Have a party as part of Adopt-a-Minefield's "Night of a Thousand Dinners"

Go to an Event

• See what events are already planned.
• Don't see your event listed? Contact .

How You Can Learn More

Read "The Bombs that Keep on Killing in Laos" by Wendy Batson, Excecutive Director of Handicap International-U.S.

Read "Munitions and Mines: Peace Education for Laos" by Titus Peachey of the Mennonite Central Committee

Check out the latest report on Laos from the Landmine Monitor, part of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines