US President Barack Obama tours the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) center in Vientiane on September 7, 2016US President Barack Obama on Wednesday met a survivor maimed by American bombs covertly dropped on Laos decades ago after pledging to help clean up a country he said was still living in the shadow of war. A day after announcing $90 million to survey and remove unexploded ordinance, Obama visited a US-backed NGO which helps provide prosthetics to the tens of thousands maimed by US munitions. "For the people of Laos, this war was no secret," Obama said. "For the people of Laos, the war was also something that was not contained to the battlefield." "For the last four decades, the people of Laos have lived under the shadow of war."

Source: Thanhnien News September 08, 2016 03:48 UTC