On October 18, in Hanoi, the Vietnam National Mine Action Center (VNMAC) and the British non-governmental organization Mines ...
The North Vietnamese forces made extensive use of a variety of homemade booby traps including the old French trou de loup set with Bengali punji sticks. Landmines were a leading cause of American ...
Unexploded ordnance and buried landmines pose an ongoing and daily threat to the people of Vietnam, particularly in the Demilitarized Zone, the “DMZ,” which once separated North and South Vietnam.
The lessons we have learned here in Vietnam should not be interpreted as an isolated problem peculiar to this war only," and Vietnamese use of mines has "outstripped the capability of our counter ...
President of the Fifth Review Conference of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC), also known as the Ottawa ...