Hong Kong CNN —Fifty years after Henry Kissinger drove American foreign policy in Southeast Asia, the region continues to live with the fallout from the bombing and military campaigns backed by the former secretary of state, who died last week.
That’s more than the Allies dropped during World War II, according to an account by Yale University historian Ben Kiernan.
Experts say the devastation – which is especially acute for people in rural areas – will go on for years to come.
That’s Kissinger’s legacy,” said Bill Morse, president of the nonprofit Landmine Relief Fund, which supports organizations including Cambodia Self-Help Demining.
They play catch with it and it blows up 10 year old children … (unexploded ordnance) are where the injuries are coming from now,” he said.
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