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War scrap behind the houseyard

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Pfriemer

Premium (World), Bangkok

War scrap behind the houseyard

There were more than 580,000 bombing missions on Laos from 1964 to 1973 during the Vietnam War.
Over two million tons of ordnance was dropped on the country, with up to 30 per cent failing to explode as designed.
80 million failed to detonate, remaining live and in the ground after the end of the war.
From the end of the war in 1974 to 2013, more than 20,000 people in Laos were killed or injured as a result of UXO accidents.
But some people collect the scrap behind their houses and some still are active to explode in any seconds.

The photo was captured in 2001 by a conventional Ektachrome 50 ASA slide film and scanned with a NIKON CoolScan 5000 ED.

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Jens Sittel 27/05/2015 19:47
und so leiden viele Jahre danach die Menschen immer noch an den Folgen von "Politik"

sehr schön gezeigt
gruß jens
Metti mi piace
Pfriemer 26/05/2015 14:14
danke Peter, doch der Schrott ist sehr bedenklich. Bei uns zuhause nur 500 Meter entfernt expodierte eine 250kg Granate aus dem WW II bei einem Schrotthändler, der die Granate mit dem Schweißbrenner zerlegen wollte, ohne natürlich zu wissen was es war.
14 Häuser zerstört, 12 Menschen tot, davon 8 Kinder.
Faszit: Gefährlicher Schrott, auch wenn man daran verdient, aber möglicherweise sein Leben und das der Anderen verliert.
Gruß Wolfgang
Metti mi piace