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17-04-2023, 09:48 PM
Monday marks 50 years since the U.S. ended its nine-year bombing of Laos.
Traditional textiles with missiles, grenades and attack planes offer a haunting glimpse of the attacks.
For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics.
Fifty years ago, these symbols took a thematic swerve to portray a new, violent reality: missiles, grenades and attack planes.
Monday marks 50 years since the U.S. ended its nine-year bombing of Laos (1964-73).
The scale of the operations was concealed from the American public until 1970, as Laos was technically neutral in the Vietnam conflict. But Vietnamese communist forces and the CIA were waging a shadow war in Laos.
To tip the scales, the Defense Department began an air campaign of gigantic scale: the equivalent of a planeload of bombs dropped every eight minutes for nine years.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-ameri...-rcna79191
Traditional textiles with missiles, grenades and attack planes offer a haunting glimpse of the attacks.
For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics.
Fifty years ago, these symbols took a thematic swerve to portray a new, violent reality: missiles, grenades and attack planes.
Monday marks 50 years since the U.S. ended its nine-year bombing of Laos (1964-73).
The scale of the operations was concealed from the American public until 1970, as Laos was technically neutral in the Vietnam conflict. But Vietnamese communist forces and the CIA were waging a shadow war in Laos.
To tip the scales, the Defense Department began an air campaign of gigantic scale: the equivalent of a planeload of bombs dropped every eight minutes for nine years.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-ameri...-rcna79191
