{"id":2520,"date":"2025-01-28T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-s-move-to-suspend-mine-clearing-funds-alarms-vietnam\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T11:46:10","slug":"u-s-move-to-suspend-mine-clearing-funds-alarms-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-s-move-to-suspend-mine-clearing-funds-alarms-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Move to Suspend Mine Clearing Funds Alarms Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Vietnam War ended half a century ago, but American weapons from that era continue to kill people to this day. Unexploded bombs rained down by American troops are littered across large swaths of Vietnam and neighboring Cambodia and Laos. They have killed tens of thousands and maimed many more since the fighting ended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People have been working to clear out these bombs for decades, but experts say it <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fordhamilj.org\/iljonline\/2024\/11\/25\/clearing-the-path-how-the-united-states-can-address-its-uxo-legacy-in-laos\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">may take another 100 years<\/a> to finish the job. The United States is a big part of the effort and has given out <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/to-walk-the-earth-in-safety-2023\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">more than $750 million<\/a> over the past three decades to clear out the unexploded ammunition in the three countries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But that funding has come to a grinding halt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Saturday, the State Department said it was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/25\/us\/politics\/mine-clearing-programs-state-dept.html\" title=\"\">suspending its global mine-clearing programs<\/a> for at least three months. It followed a Trump administration announcement of sweeping pauses of U.S. foreign aid. These moves will ripple through many parts of the world where the United States helps pay for disaster relief, aid for refugees as well as health and anti-poverty programs. Even though the long-term effects of the funding pause are unclear, some experts warned of deadly consequences, particularly in places strewn with land mines, cluster munitions and other unexploded bombs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is a good chance people are going to die,\u201d said Bill Morse, who co-founded <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/16\/world\/asia\/cambodia-khmer-rouge.html\" title=\"\">Cambodian Self Help Demining<\/a> and the Landmine Relief Fund. \u201cSomebody is going to walk into a minefield that should have been cleared this week, boom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Vietnam, there was bewilderment. Tran Phu Cuong, director of a government agency responsible for managing international aid into Vietnam, pointed out that the Vietnamese people are still living with the lingering effects of the \u201cunjust\u201d war. Those include the unexploded bombs and the lasting effects of \u201cAgent Orange,\u201d the chemical toxin that the Americans sprayed during the war that has been linked to cancers and birth defects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe U.S. government and the American people bear responsibility for addressing the consequences of the war,\u201d Mr. Cuong said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Millions of acres of land in Vietnam \u2014 nearly a fifth of the country \u2014 remained contaminated as of 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ho Van Lai was 10 when he came across a cluster bomb in Vietnam\u2019s Quang Tri Province in 2000 while playing with his cousins. He picked up the small round objects, which detonated immediately, killing his two cousins. He lost both legs below the knee, one arm below the elbow and the sight in one eye.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Lai, 34, who is teaching schoolchildren to identify and avoid unexploded bombs, said he was \u201cvery sad\u201d to hear that the Trump administration was cutting funding for demining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe U.S. support for mine clearing efforts in Vietnam has given the U.S. a good image,\u201d Mr. Lai said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Cambodia, Sok Eysan, the spokesman of the ruling Cambodian People\u2019s Party, said it was the U.S. president\u2019s prerogative to cut these funds, but added: \u201cWho created the wars which left these countries with land mines? Everyone knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Jan. 16, Pov Nepin, 36, was removing mines for the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority, a government agency, in Oddar Meanchey Province in northwestern Cambodia when an anti-tank mine killed him. He had cleared hundreds of mines since 2021, inspired by his father, who was a doctor helping people who had been injured by mines, according to Pov Davann, 29, a brother of Mr. Pov Nepin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is very sad news for all Cambodians to hear about the funding cut,\u201d said Mr. Pov Davann. \u201cThere are still a lot of land mines in Cambodia which we need to clear for farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent years, China has stepped up its effort to help countries in Southeast Asia clear their mines. Mr. Morse, the co-founder of the demining organization in Cambodia, warned that the Trump administration\u2019s decision will prompt Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to turn more toward Beijing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the war ended, 40,000 people in Vietnam have been killed by unexploded bombs and another 60,000 injured. The death toll in Cambodia surpasses 65,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The U.S. Agency for International Development, or U.S.A.I.D., has helped provide treatment to people maimed by these weapons. But the bulk of global mine clearing funding from the United States has come from State Department programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent decades, the tiny landlocked country of Laos has been one of the top recipients of money to destroy conventional weapons. The bombing campaign launched by the United States made Laos the most heavily bombed country per capita.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More than 22,000 people there have been killed by unexploded bombs from that era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Laos, officials have said that the country needs $50 million annually for ongoing clearance of land mines and unexploded remnants of war. The government contributes $15 million and relies on international assistance from Japan, the United States and the United Nations Development Program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sera Koulabdara, the chief executive of Legacies of War, a U.S.-based advocacy group for global demining, said she was going to lobby officials in Washington to reconsider the decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis aid suspension is not sending a good message to the parts of the world who really depend on us,\u201d said Ms. Koulabdara, who fled Laos for the United States when she was 6. \u201cCongress really needs to reconsider this decision and hold our current administration accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Sun Narin<!-- --> contributed reporting from Phnom Penh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" 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