Here we go...another little installment, and hopefully pictures to be included. Sara and I are here in Vang Vieng, a small back packers 'haven' just north of the capital, Vientiane. Seemingly we have arrived here at a very interesting time as over the last few days the ongoing insurgency has been rekindled with a local (possibly a police officer or solider) being killed by the Hmong, a tribal people that have been fighting the communist government (on and off) for a couple of decades. The fighting had apparently all but concluded a couple of years ago with the surrender of a large cache of weapons by the rebels (whom I might add are, and have always been, sponsored by the CIA and Americans). For some reason, one that I'm not completely sure of, there seem to
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