The Lingering Danger of Land Mines | Retro Report

Despite Princess Diana’s public crusade in the late 1990’s to ban land mines, they, and other unexploded ordinances, remain an intractable problem around the world, killing and maiming thousands a year – most of them civilians, many children. Perhaps no country illustrates the problem more dramatically than Vietnam.

Decades after the Vietnam War ended, the country is still grappling daily with thousands of unexploded ordinances left behind. They continue to cripple the innocent, hamper agricultural development, and affect foreign policy.