Mystery in Laos: Reformer Still Missing Two Years After Videotaped Police Stop

Quoted: “Laos was a repressive society before Sombath was disappeared, and it’s a repressive society now,” emphasizes Ian Baird, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who lived in Laos for many years. “But this is the first time that somebody close  to a lot of foreigners, somebody with an international reputation, has been disappeared.”