MAG (Mines Advisory Group) 347d ago

In 2024, MAG marked 30 years of operations in Lao PDR. Since 1994, MAG has worked with communities and authorities across Khammouane and Xieng Khouang provinces to find, remove, and destroy hundreds of thousands of bombs leftover from the war. The Lao PDR is the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita. From 1964 to 1973, more than two million tons of explosive ordnance were dropped on the country. The scale of the bombing is the equivalent of a planeload of bombs being dropped every eight minutes, twenty-four hours a day, for nine years. This included 270 million cluster submunitions, of which an estimated 30% failed to detonate on impact – meaning they remain live, contaminating the land, for decades. MAG currently employs over 1,200 staff in Lao PDR, many of whom are from communities heavily impacted by the conflict and the subsequent contamination. Learn more about our work in Laos: https://www.maginternational.org/what-we-do/where-we-work/laos/