"Simply put,’ the officials warned, ‘we are quickly heading toward an environmental and life-threatening catastrophe.’”

"Vietnam is on the verge of its rainy season, when torrential downpours are common. With enough rain, soil contaminated with dioxin could flood into nearby communities, poisoning their food supplies... And less than 1,500 feet away is a major river that flows into HCMC, population 9 million."

The Israeli state used an 80-year-old Palestinian man as a human shield.

They forced him to look for explosives, under threat of his head being blown off.

Then they shot him and his wife.

"Every accusation is confession."

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An excellent investigation into how Chinese investments, high-speed rail projects, geopolitics, and government complacency have transformed Laos into a banana (and durian) republic, with devastating environmental consequences.

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5/5 Her cousin, who was close to her age and like a close friend to her, was lost amidst the tumultuous flow of evacuees in March 1975, just a few weeks before the war ended on the ground. He was right behind her - my mom never forgets this - but then he vanished, never to be seen again.

4/5 Even now, my mom is haunted by these memories. Her legs were too tired to keep going, her feet blistered from walking so much. She was stepping on bodies along the way. "Dead people were all over, lying on top of each other," she recalls.

3/5 They had to evacuate repeatedly from one place to another to avoid the shelling and bombings by both the US and communist forces.

2/5 Among our family's group of evacuees, there was also another kid, my mom's older brother - and an elderly woman, my grandma's mother-in-law. My grandfather had been killed previously, leaving my grandma to care for the whole family during the war.

1/5 The opening scene reminds me of what my grandma and my mom have recounted about the Vietnam War. Back then, my mom was likely as young as the little girl carrying a little boy on her back in the video. The little boy is my uncle, and the older girl is my aunt.
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