New Mexico Journalists Detail Long-Lasting Dangers of Cluster Bombs
7.21.23 – In July, the Biden administration publicly announced its decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. In conversation with Our Land’s Laura Paskus, filmmakers Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern explain how cluster bombs work and why they’re so dangerous. The two longtime journalists’ film, “Eternal Harvest,” documents the bombing campaign in Laos between 1964 and 1973, when the U.S. military dropped 4 billion pounds of explosives, about 30% of which didn’t detonate and remain on the landscape.
Correspondent: Laura Paskus
Guests:
Jerry Redfern, reporter, photojournalist & filmmaker, “Eternal Harvest”
Karen Coates, editor, writer & filmmaker, “Eternal Harvest”
For More Information:
Biden approves cluster munition supply to Ukraine – The Washington Post
Bombscapes: Of War and Earth – Undark
In call to cancel debt, Cambodia asks: When war is over, who cleans up the mess? – The Christian Science Monitor
A Singular Landscape – Archaeology Magazine