Why Laos was Bombed: The Enemy is me | Mike Boddington | TEDxLaneXangAve
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- How was it that the most powerful nation on earth, the most technologically advanced, the wealthiest, could spend nine years bombing the heck out of one of the weakest countries on earth, one of the least technically advanced, one of the poorest?
Educated in agriculture and economics, Mike Boddington became an academic at London University in 1967 under the tutelage of Professor Gerald Wibberley, the doyen of countryside planning in UK. Mr. Boddington left the sheltered confines of academia and established a rural planning consultancy, in 1972, which took him all over the world.
He visited Lao PDR in August 1994 to assess the need and established a project with the Ministry of Health. COPE, a cooperation between the Ministry and international NGOs, was established in 1997. Wanting to have a representative of the Lao disabled community, Mr. Boddington established the Lao Disabled People’s Association in 2001. To generate a longer term, sustainable income for COPE, a Visitor Centre was created in 2008 and recently visited by U.S. State Secretary and President Obama.
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Why does this video only have 8, 800 views? To me it's incredible how unaware the US is of it's own past and its also astonishing how they continue to be
Very insightful and in-depth. Presentations like this needs to be included in all our educational system. We can’t move forward to a better tomorrow without learning from the past! Amazing job....thank you for sharing! 👍
Very good thought provoking video. I spent some time with Mike in Laos. I discovered that there are many shades of grey and that the best intended actions can have many unintended consequences. We are deluding ourselves if we think we have anything like a full picture of what is going on in the world based on what we are dished up by the mainstream media.
Mike, if you are reading this, keep up the good fight!
Thank you so much, Dan. Greatly appreciated comment.
@@mikeboddington5196 Mike, your desire to be responsible is noble. What are you doing to expose and reduce the amount of corruption in the UXO aid program? The USA has spent $ 270 million on UXO removal and it is estimated that corruption has taken 40% of that. Are you fighting corruption or on their side? You have to be one or the other.
If Laos did not have to go through this devastating situation, I wonder if Lao people in America would be more recognized like Thai, Cambodian, and Vietnamese people. The King of the Hill episode is a good example. Funny and relatable but kinda sad. More people should learn about this secret war.
You mean if one of the Lao King didn't want his country to change many Lao people wouldn't have to jump from one country to another country from year 1975 . learn the history of Lao you will understand
@@oradychanthirat2937 yeah almost every time I tell people I'm Lao they have no idea what is that but they know what Thai people are.
@@staceys2875 many of us know who Lao people are. There are more ethnic Laos living in Thailand than live in Lao
@B Rad The thing that always surprises me is many ethnic Lao hold no resentment to the United States and are among the happiest people despite the bombs.
The ocean? What ocean?
OMG.Very good you present this history we Love you Laos country we love you people Laos country
no. you don't
U R my aged and the same Boot...Thank you for sharing Experiences
So amazing to learn about this!!
Thank you.
Very, very good.....
Awesome to kwn about Laos boombing .
There's video-bits missing, but great presentation neverhteless
The cuts made it difficult to watch in the last fourth of the video.
You need to know about how it happened ?
1. Why Bombed ?
2. Who ordered
3. Who was the leaders of the times
4. What's conflict started from
5. Politicals families conflicts
6. Military political conflict
7. You have to know the sourches came from ?
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You can learn from our Resources and truth problems and How we can learn from both sides and clear their minds
After hearing the story from speaker, I figured out why some countries try to develop newer and newer weapons to protect themselves from racism
They killed the giants in there
What do You mean?
Yes, hiding history.
Lot of hidden history now blown up.
What is not told is that developed countries, French and America, purposely instigated and created the conflicts in Laos and Vietnam; all for the purpose of natural resource gains. The strategies of war are the same strategies used, when the Europeans came to America and created the genocide of the indigenous people of America; using indigenous people to war against themselves by supplying them with weapons.
The Bombs are just an advanced way of execution done onto the indigenous people of south east asia.
As a Hmong, and my dad was manipulated to aid the CIA during this war, I can say for sure that the CIA knew exactly what they were creating finding the Hmong and knew that the only ending for the Hmong was their death, (mentioned in the book Backfire, written by Rodger Warner).
The US bombing was also target bombing as it was to get rid of the evidence of what they created, wiping out the peopel who aided the US in a created war that they created, again, all for the purpose of monetary gains of natural resource riches and the gains of the estate
Your dad wasn't Manipulated... You were.
Pab tsis tau.
@@JBXyooj explain and your facts are?
@@JBXyooj LOL, only if you knew the purpose to being hmong
They wiped out the Khmer mon people. Smh. Cambodia and Africa are the same. These scientist go there and erased our history. But the deeper they dig the blacker it gets
WAR = BIG Business, its the USA BIGGEST income.
Thats why they make new wars every 3 years.........
Thats freedom and democracy for you smooth brained people
out of all of the TEDxLaneXangAve videos, this is the best of them all. the other that i have seen thus far is scrap!
So how do you defend your country against those who will make war on your regardless of your pacifism? I respect his views I jut don't see how it will work.
this is very poorly edited. constant audio and visual skips.
Past
no such thing as enemx or not