Join our Youth Advocacy Ambassador, Layla Lahlou, as she interviews H.E. Ambassador Anouparb Vongnorkeo, 8th Permanent Representative of the Lao PDR to the United Nations (UN).

As the world’s most bombed country per capita, Laos knows all too well of the dangers that lurk just inches beneath its soil.

What are the impacts and lasting effects of the bombardments of Agent Orange, napalm, and other explosive ordnance on Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam? How has this affected the country and its people?

In 1962, Mike Burton was commissioned in the US Air Force. Stationed in Thailand, he worked in intelligence and was...

Danae talks about the organization's beginnings, current focus, and future plans.

Dr. Palina Louangketh is a former Lao refugee from Pakse, Laos who moved with family to Boise-Idaho, during the Vietnam war-era bombing in Laos.

As global tributes to late US diplomat Henry Kissinger poured in, his death stirred fury across Southeast Asia.

This year marks 50 years since the last prisoner of war was released from captivity in Operation Homecoming in 1973.

Many fear that Ukraine, which has received many cluster bombs from the US, will become the next unfortunate casualty to share Laos' fate.

Exactly 50 years since the bombing stopped in Laos HALO is still clearing up unexploded bombs in the landlocked South East Asian country. JJ Chalmers talks to Sera Koulabdara, CEO of Legacies of War and to William Hunter, who runs HALO's Laos programme.

SEAD's Kaysone Syonesa Schneider sits down with Legacies of War's Aleena Inthaly & Danae Hendrickson.

A fatal blast caused by suspected UXO in Phiang District, Xayaboury Province has claimed the lives of two children.

Fifty years after the last bombs were dropped on Laos, unexploded cluster munitions continue to be dangerous making the U.S. decision to send cluster weapons to Ukraine controversial.

With cluster bombs, the killing doesn't stop when the war ends. Wherever they land, children playing, gardening, herding cattle or digging an irrigation canal decades later all become dangerous.

"America is sending another deadly weapon to help Ukraine fight Russia. The Associated Press reported the White House has approved Ukraine's request for cluster munitions — bombs and artillery shells that open in the air to release dozens or hundreds of "bomblets" to destroy multiple targets at once."

When Lee Po Cha traveled to Laos in November 2022, he was given the opportunity to detonate a bomb. It was the first time in 48 years he had been back to his birth country.

A discussion on how a small group of persistent and dedicated actors in both countries have led efforts to heal the legacies of war

On International Youth Day, experts write from Laos, where children continue to die in a war that ended over 50 years ago.

Buried bombs are robbing children of their limbs as landmine as casualties rise to 1,052 in Myanmar

Mike Burton ’71, ’74 wants the US to clear the bombs it left behind in Laos 50 years ago.

As someone from an impacted community, Anna made the decision to reconnect with her Lao roots.

Since the early age of 25, Mike Burton was raised with the belief that America was the best country in the world. But soon his perception and view of the world changed.

Laos Was Collateral Damage in the U.S.’ Secret War. The Wounds Are Visible in the Land and in Generations Still Waiting on Justice

A half-century after the war “ended,” people in Vietnam Laos, and Cambodia try to live their lives in a land riddled with unexploded ordinance that still kill and maim civilians.

Rockets from the advanced weapons system carry hundreds of cluster bombs, many of which will live on long after the war is over.

‘short-sighted, inhumane, and a complete disregard for intl law’

Cambodia and Laos have direct experience with the aftermath of U.S. cluster bombs, now deployed on the battlefield in Ukraine.

In July, U.S. President Joe Biden made the controversial decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. Though neither the United States, Ukraine nor Russia is party to the 2008 convention outlawing them...

Southeast Asian countries are warning about the long-term dangers of cluster bombs in Ukraine after the United States sent the explosives to Kyiv earlier this month for use in their drive to recapture territory seized during Russia’s invasion.

Any battlefield advantage is outweighed by the death and destruction these weapons cause.

"We strongly condemn the use of cluster munitions by all parties in the war in Ukraine and call for the immediate end to the use of these horrific weapons anywhere in the world," said chair of the CMC and CEO of Legacies of War Sera Koulabdara, who was quoted in the release.

“I applaud the NDAA amendment proposed by Reps. Jacobs and Rep. Omar,” Sera Koulabdara, CEO of the advocacy group Legacies of War, told RS. “I urge them and other leaders to continue to stand on the side of the basic human rights to live free from the fear of cluster munitions and speak out publicly to their colleagues and the American people.”

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Monday marks 50 years since the U.S. ended its nine-year bombing of Laos. Traditional textiles with missiles, grenades and attack planes offer a haunting glimpse of the attacks.

As a young child in Champassak Province, southern Laos, after coming home from school one day, Sera Koulabdara heard loud banging...

As the US Cluster Munition Coalition recommends, President Biden should to immediately halt the transfer of cluster munitions given the significant humanitarian, human rights, and political risks involved.

Two years of war has left roughly one-third of its territory polluted, with dire potential consequences for the world's food supply

POW/MIA families won't forget that presidential adviser Henry Kissinger helped Richard Nixon not only to manipulate a war but also to abandon U.S. troops.

Meet Jessica Pearce Rotondi...These documents brought to light a family ghost: her uncle Jack, who disappeared during the CIA-led “Secret War”...

From Vietnam to Laos to Cambodia, Henry Kissinger's legacy of devastation and war still lives on after his death.

Laos was heavily bombed between 1964 and 1973 and unexploded munitions are littered, dormant but deadly, across much of the country

Anti-Cluster Munitions Campaigners Call on Biden White House to Answer Basic Questions Regarding Recent U.S. Transfers of Indiscriminate Cluster Munitions to Ukraine

Ukraine has said the weapons, banned by many countries, are necessary to battle Russia

Today marks exactly fifty years since the last cluster bombs were dropped in Laos.

Cluster bombs were dropped across Laos and Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Many didn’t explode, and remain a danger nearly 50 years after the war ended.

Former U.S. Ambassadors to Cambodia Urge the President to Reconsider Cluster Munitions

Former U.S. Ambassadors to Laos Urge the President to Reconsider Cluster Munitions

The weapon is banned by many countries. NPR's Michel Martin talks to Sera Koulabdara of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munition Coalition, about why the U.S. think it's worth the risk.

Danae Hendrickson is the Chief of Mission Advancement & Communications for the organization Legacies of War. Legacies of War is an educational and advocacy group working to address the impact of the American Secret War.

This special award is given in honor of Sera’s passion and dedication to Legacies' mission. Under her leadership...