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Laos: Mass Arrests of 346 Protesters Prior to SEA Games

Wed, 2009-11-04 13:18 — ABN

"Multiple sources in Laos as well as their families in the Laotian Diaspora community have confirmed the arrest and imprisonment of 346 Laotian students and demonstrators in Vientiane and elsewhere in Laos by the LPDR secret police and military in what is clearly a major crackdown following the 10th anniversary of the student protest in Vientiane in 1999," said Philip Smith, of the CPPA in Washington, D.C.

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