"When I drove through Laos nine years ago, the villages were very dark. People were watching me from the shadows. Now it's brighter and it's possible to talk about the secret war. But it's still not safe," says Thai photographer Vinai Dithajohn, who traveled earlier this year to remote parts of the small and often neglected country.
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Paradox of Laos shows how the past can haunt a place
U.S. 'secret war' has left the country struggling to escape its isolationist past
A monument to the Pathet Lao, the Laotian communists and their struggle against the might of the U.S. military, in front of the Lao People’s Army History Museum in Vientiane. (Photo by Tom Vater)
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