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Lonely Vigil for Missing Laotian Activist

Lonely Vigil for Missing Laotian Activist

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Oct 03, 2013
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For Ng Shui-Meng, the past 10 months have been lonely, frustrating and frightening. She has been engaged in a vain struggle to discover what happened to her husband, Sombath Somphone, who almost certainly was kidnapped and murdered, possibly with the complicity of members of the Laotian government.

Shui-Meng refuses to give up, hoping that the 61-year-ol…

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