An international effort is underway in rural areas of Laos, where 80 percent of the population lives, to remove the bombs.

Includes footage of the Laos countryside showing the daily lives of civilians, including farming and education. Also features footage of the caves in which civilians lived and worked, with areas ...

Laos' geographic location and mountainous terrain ... Due to remoteness, people living in scattered communities throughout the countryside face challenges in accessing essential services as ...

They are ostensibly on the side of the royal government as the insurgent communists, Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese, move stealthily through rural backwaters. But they also are at the mercy of the ...