Mines and cluster munitions: Vietnam's deadly traces of war


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A storage space for unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Vietnam's Ha Tay Village. Photos: dpa

Hoang Thi Ly smiles from the concrete porch of her ochre-coloured home in Quang Tri province, looking over the calm fields and rice paddies of central Vietnam.

She points in the direction of the grasslands of Truc Lam village, a sight so calm and bucolic that one can scarcely imagine what once occurred here.

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