Lao Voices

I don’t recall ever celebrate or take part in Boun Haw Khao Padap Din, this is the first time I’ve heard, and it’s very new to me. It is a Lao somber festival in which the living pay respects to the dead. It’s marked by a ceremony of exhuming previously buried bodies, cleaning [...]

The below article is an excerpt from the article “Laos: war against an impovered state” by Willy Van Damme translated from Dutch to English by yours truly.
In short: general Vang Pao is a drug lord and CIA agent who held many Hmong hostage in his firm grip of violence and opium trades. Vang Pao’s key [...]