We move to suspend the mines coordinated money, Vietnam warnings

The Vietnam War ended half a century ago, but American weapons from that era continue to kill people to this day. The insecure bombs that were rained by the American forces are scattered through large areas of the neighboring Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. They have killed tens of thousands and have distorted a lot since the fighting ended.

People are working to remove these bombs for decades, but experts say that It may take another 100 years To finish the job. The United States is a large part of this effort and has been made More than 750 million dollars Over the past three decades to clarify unintended ammunition in the three countries.

But this financing has stopped.

On Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said it was Hunting its global mine photography programs For at least three months. The Trump administration’s announcement has followed the temporary suspension of US foreign aid. These moves will be crowned across many parts of the world as the United States helps to pay disaster relief costs, help refugees as well as health and combating poverty programs. Although the long -term effects of stopping the financing are unclear, some experts have warned of fatal consequences, especially in places full of ground mines, cluster ammunition and other uninterrupted bombs.

“There is a good opportunity to die,” said Bill Morse, who participated in its founding. Cambodi helps self -remove And the relief box of land milk. “Someone will walk in a minefield that should have been disinfected this week, Boom.”

In Vietnam, there was vitality. The director of a government agency responsible for the International Aid Administration to Vietnam indicated that the Vietnamese people still live with the continuous effects of the “unfair” war. These are the insecure bombs and the permanent effects of “OCCENT Orange”, the chemical toxins sprayed by Americans during the war that was linked to cancer and birth defects.

“The United States government and the American people are responsible for addressing the consequences of war,” said Mr. Kong.

Millions of acres of land in Vietnam – nearly the fifth country – remained polluted as of 2023.

Ho Van Lai was ten years old when he coincided with a cluster bomb in Kwang Tree Province in Vietnam in 2000 while playing with his cousins. He picked up the small round things that immediately exploded, killing his cousins. Both legs below the knee, one arm below the elbow and the scene in one eye.

Mr. Lay, 34, who is studying schoolchildren to determine and avoid insecure bombs, said he was “very sad” to hear that the Trump administration was cutting funding to arm them.

“It has given US support for mines cleansing efforts in Vietnam a good picture,” said Mr. Lay.

In Cambodia, Sook Eisan, a spokesman for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, said he was one of the powers of the American president to cut these money, but added: “Who created the wars that left these countries with the mines of the earth? Everyone knows.”

On January 16, Bouv Nabin, 36, was removing mines for the power to assist the Cambodian mines and the aid of the victims, a government agency, in Odiaar Menchi Province in northwest of Cambodia when he was killed by an anti -tank mine. He had cleared hundreds of mines since 2021, inspired by his father, who was a doctor who was helping people who were injured by the mines, according to Bouv Dawan, 29, the brother of Mr. Bouv Nippin.

“It is very sad that all the Cambodians hear about reducing financing,” said Mr. Bouv Dawan. “There are still a lot of land mines in Cambodia that we need to wipe for farmers.”

In recent years, China has climbed its efforts to help Southeast Asian countries remove mines. Mr. Morse, co -founder of Demining in Cambodia, warned that the Trump administration’s decision would lead to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos more towards Beijing.

Since the war ended, 40,000 people have been killed in Vietnam by uninterrupted bombs and 60,000 people. The death toll in Cambodia exceeds 65,000.

The United States Agency for International Development, or the United States Agency for International Development, helped provide treatment for people who distort these weapons. But the largest part of the global financing for the United States’s disinfection from the United States came from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In recent decades, the country of Laos is the small coastal of the small coastal one of the best beneficiaries of money to destroy traditional weapons. The bombing campaign launched by the United States Laos made the most individual bombing.

More than 22,000 people have been killed by unintended bombs from that era.

In Laos, officials said that the country needs $ 50 million annually to continuously clearance of land mines and uninterrupted war. The government contributes $ 15 million and relies on international assistance from Japan, the United States and the United Nations Development Program.

“It will pressure Washington officials to reconsider the decision.

“This suspension of aid does not send a good message to parts of the world that really depends on us,” said Ms. Kulhdara, who fled Laos for the United States when she was six years old. Our current administration is responsible. “

O Narin She contributed to the reports of Bennah.