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Laos: Land of Contradictions |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
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| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 435 Words, 3,117 Characters |
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Laos is a peaceful, idyllic land of breathtaking jungles, limestone escarpments, mountains, caves, and cultural wonders. On the other hand, it has a communist totalitarian government that seeks to control the lives of every one of its five million inhabitants, stamp out a minority highland ethnic group, and stifle dissent through summary justice, inhumane incarceration, and persecution o...
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...ecture, received UNESCO's coveted World Heritage Site designation in 1995. vbcrlf The Plain of Jars, a treeless upland region, receives its name from some 300 huge stone jars found there. Carved of nonnative limestone, they range up to six tons in weight and are estimated to be 2,000 years old. How they got there remains a mystery.--The Editor vbcrlf
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