Quang Tri (Vietnam): Inching across a field littered with Vietnam war-era bombs, Ngoc leads an all-women demining team clearing unexploded ordnance that has killed tens of thousands of people – including her uncle.
“He died in an explosion. I was haunted by memories of him, ” Le Thi Bich Ngoc says as she oversees the controlled detonation of a cluster bomb found in a sealed-off site in central Quang Tri province.
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