Laos quotes

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.

It doesn’t take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.