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Laos: Corageous Women Take On the Legacy of War | Global 3000

903 views · Published 19 November 2013 · 7:08 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: DW News · 2013 · News & Politics

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An estimated two million ordinance were dropped on Laos during the Second  Indochina war. 30 percent of the sub-munitions from cluster bombs failed to explode and pose an acute danger to the population.
 
Bomb disposal experts like Manixia Thor have learned to deal with the danger. Three weeks a month, she leaves behind her husband and child to lead a team of 12 women in Laos. "It's no coincidence that we're an all-woman team. I'm convinced that we have a better inner radar than men," says Manixia Thor. To date, no one in her team has been injured on the job.

A Report by Norbert Lübbers

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