Tag: Laos

The March 8, 2026, issue of The New York Times Magazine featured an article by Matthieu Aikins and Wesley Morgan entitled “America’ Secret Veterans: They Fought For the C.I.A. in Afghanistan. Now, 10,000 Former Zero Unit Soldiers Are in the United States and Living in Fear.” The article focused on...
The assassin was in the pay of a police general trained by the CIA who functioned as the hatchet man of another CIA asset. On April 1, 1963, Quinim Pholsena, Laos’s Foreign Minister and head of the “Peace and Neutrality” party, was shot and killed as he walked up...
Laotians continue to be crippled and maimed by unexploded ordnance left over from the Indochina War. Because of the world’s indifference, only one percent of 80 million undetonated antipersonnel bombs have been cleared. On a bright Saturday morning, August 2, 2008, Yae Li, a middle-aged rice farmer with six children,...