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Legacies of War

Films, Lectures Deal with Laotian Cluster Bomb Issues

A lecture and film series designed to raise awareness of the issue of cluster bombs in Laos begins at Boston College this month and will continue in the spring semester.

By Patricia Delaney | Deputy Director of Public Affairs

A lecture and film series designed to raise awareness of the issue of cluster bombs in Laos begins at Boston College this month and will continue in the spring semester.

The series, "Legacies of War: The Secret War in Laos and the Continuing Tragedy of Cluster Bombs," will kick off this Sunday, Dec. 7, from 2-4 p.m. in Higgins 300 with a screening of "Bombies." This award-winning 2002 film documents the continuing devastation caused by unexploded cluster bombs – called "bombies" in Laotian – tens of millions of which were dropped on Laos between 1966 and 1973.

Prohibited under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which was adopted in Dublin in May and is due to be signed by more than 100 nations in Oslo this month, cluster bombs are air-dropped or ground-launched munitions that eject a cluster of smaller bombs over a wide area, many of which do not immediately explode and therefore can kill or maim civilians long after a conflict has ended. Widely used during the Vietnam conflict, cluster bombs are continuing to kill Laotians today.

"Legacies of War" is co-sponsored by the Legacies of War Project — created to raise awareness about the history of the Vietnam War-era bombing in Laos — the Lynch School of Education and the University's Southeast Asian Student Association, among other campus groups.

Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy,'95, MEd'96, of the Legacies of War Project, and Prof. Walt Haney (LSOE) will offer remarks at the Dec. 7 event.

Future films screened will include "The Most Secret Place on Earth," a 2008 film which documents the CIA headquarters for the "secret war" in Laos. Located in Long Tieng near the Plain of Jars, this site is still off-limits to visitors. "Bomb Harvest," a 2008 film that follows an Australian bomb removal team in Laos as it struggles to clear unexploded ordnance from Lao villages, schoolyards and fields, also is slated for screening.

For more information see www.legaciesofwar.org/