MEMORANDUM (English)
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MEMORANDUM
FOR THE ATTENTIN OF THE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED-NATIONS' ORGANISATION AND
THE INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY NEW YORK, September 2007
CENTER OF STUDIES AND RESEARCHES ON LAOS AND ASIA Paris, 20th September 2007
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THE SITUATION OF LAOS
Throughout the history of Laos, discord, caused by foreign interference
and invasion, appeared among the Laotian people several times.
Similarly, past reconciliations between the Laotians resulted from
pressure on the part of prejudicial foreign powers, who acted according
to their own strategic interests always detrimental to those of the
Laotian people.
The subordination of Laos's politic to that of the foreign countries
caused internal crisis and external conflicts with some neighboring
countries.
As regards the economic point of view, Laos has the privilege to be
ranked first of all assisted countries. The truth is that while the
Laotian citizenry receive few dollars, most leaders' account are well
fuelled by foreign banks.
The decline of the Laotian society is such that the value system is
closely subordinated of the dollar and the civil and military hierarchy
of privileges.
Like the October Soviet Revolution of 1917 and the Chinese Cultural
Revolution of the 1960's, the revolutionary process of Laos during the
second half of the year 1975, was accelerated. The Laotian communist
party, called the Lao People's Revolution Party, came out of the shadows
of leading the final phase of the power takeover. The power occupation
consisted of two phases, which on the one hand an extension and
consolidation of the revolutionary forces, whereas, on the other hand,
the instauration of the people's democracy, the Lao People's Democratic
Republic.
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RECALLING THE FACST
On the 2 December 1975, the Lao People's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP )
with the massive assistance of the Vietnamese, imposed a communist
regime and engrossed an undivided power. The ageing Laos monarchy, in
place for more than ten centuries, was brutally abolished and the Lao
People's Democratic Republic proclaimed without the democratic sanction
of the Lao People. Moreover, each time a strong and tragic period
opened, this change was marked as utopian. Very quickly, however, the
historic reality of the events became apparent. The terrorized
population was deprived of all rights and liberties. Since, the
sufferings of the Laotian people have known neither borders nor respite.
In extreme manner, the LPRP raged against those who had been in the
service of the former regime.
The people cried from the boundless pain experienced and continued since
the cannon passed over the countryside in silence, a huge scandal of
peace stupidly wasted. Since the dark day of 2 December 1975, the people
cried over the hoisting of the communist flag and change of name,
symbols of a defeated Laos. Discretely, as it is done in Laos, the dream
of democracy and prosperity arising from finally meeting such a concord
was lost. In fact, so much was it true, says Henri Amouroux in an
article on the Nazis crimes ( Le Monde on 25 October 2000 ) that “ “ the
incuriosity still remains large, curiosity suspect, it is a matter of
another evil empire such as that of Stalin, that of Ho Chi Minh, that of
Pol Pot where the memoirs of the duty of compulsory crimes of some
correspond to the oblivious duty of crimes of others ”.
As early as the first days of the taking over of the communist power, in
1975, police combing was set up throughout the cities. Well-tried, the
method of the USSR was used in people's democracies, such as that of
Cuba, where the CDR, the Committee of Defence of the Revolution, was
entrusted with looking out for the least fault to the communist
morality, the method of self-defence had eyes and ears everywhere. Over
the last thirty-two years, such control over the population is always in
practice. A police officer can gain the house of anyone at any time and
does not fail to do so. The State, the Party, is him. The only means of
avoiding all trouble is to stay in a corner and be quiet. Speak out the
word “multi-party system”
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in public, criticize the Party or express ideas contrary to the Party
line and detainment is deserved.
In all universities, as in all enterprise and corporations, the Party
members serve as informers of their fellow workers. The informer's
mission consists of spying on their subjects. Certain hotel employees,
taxi drivers, and cycle-rickshaw riders are laid out especially to watch
the foreign visitors who are marked out accordingly. Good students of
the Stasi of East Germany and the Soviet KGB, the Lao security forces
have copied their working methods on these two famous organisms. Mixed
with the population, their agents are alive also in the administration.
Downright machines of propaganda, that of political teachings, are
striving to lead the inhabitants to practice at best different programs
of the Party.
In reality, all press is the reflection of the unique thinking and the
printing office of the state monopoly.
Today, one says, “ Where are the promises of the communist leaders? ”
All the Laotians know the answer : their country is under the heel of
the mandarin regime, depraved and worn away by corruption. In the name
of the revolution, that is to say, the hope of a better and worthy life,
they impose on the population a miserable life
After the colonialists, the feudalists, the imperialists, the puppets,
there was hence the maneuvers of the peaceful evolution of the west and
of the Laotian reactionary groups abroad. The peaceful evolution was
propagandized as the worst enemy which threatened the regime's existence
by the Party.
The strategy of the Vietnamese Communist Party in Laos consisted of
favoring the participation of the Nèo Lao Hakxat ( NLHX ) to a Royal
Government of National Union, born from the Vientiane Agreements of
1973, in order to restore peace and national concord, as a key stage
emerging on the abolition of the constitutional monarchy, on the
power-taking of the Lao People's Revolution Party ( LPRP ) and on the
founding of the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( LPDR ).
The Lao People's Revolutionary Party rules as absolute master. A dark
day in the history of Laos, the ideology of Marxist-Leninism is the base
of the regime led by the LPRP, which brutally surged from the
underground activity. But, nobody had
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suspected that the LPRP, clandestine up until that time, was going to
surface in view to impose and seize power. The King, the Queen, the
Crown Prince as well as the military cadres, the policemen and the
administrative officials were arrested and deported to the concentration
camps. Urged and fostered by the Vietnamese communists, the LPRP
destroyed the foundation of the country, and henceforth Laos became the
province of Vietnam.
In the Geneva Accords of 1954 and 1962, in the Paris' Accords of 1973
(Article 20) and the Vientiane's agreements, it was prohibited to
introduce, in Laos, troops and military persons, arms and munitions,
military materials. It is urgent that Vietnam respects the fundamental
nation rights of the Laotian people, abstains from intervention in the
internal affairs of Laos and recognizes Laos as a fully sovereign and
independent state, such as it has been demanded and specified by the
Accords. The Accords and agreements have not been respected by Vietnam.
The Vietnamese communists are only and entirely responsible for a
situation which stirs up disgrace in Laos. All the democratic liberties
have been suppressed. The pagodas and the sanctuaries, formerly and
protected, have been transformed and revenges uttered. The entire
country lives in great distress and fear. The regime provoked the most
unprecedented exodus in the history of the country; more than one tenth
of the population, about 420,000 people must have left the native land
in order to find a safe place in democratic and free countries.
Why this massive flight? For, it is well a matter of flight-distracted
flight, desperate flight, flight of fear, flight of past all hope. What
are the causes of this? The truth must be said. The opinion is proper as
to be informed in complete manner on this disturbing problem of great
human tragedy, which shakes the conscience of the civilized world, and
at the same time, represents a powerful detonator enabled to lead to a
new extension of conflict.
It is this rage of persecution and the arms rattling that thousands of
peoples, being obedient to the reflex of survival, have decided with
tears and weeping an fury in heart to flee the inhumane regime, which
secretes only the hatred, the persecution, and the death.
We, the Lao, flee our country because:
- the new regime has show its monster face of demented cruelty;
- there exists elsewhere democracy and liberty;
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- we die in the concentration camps;
- we fear - fear of reprisals, fear of secret police raids.
Thirty-two years after, to this day, any democratization process is not
yet perceptible: the Laotian citizen does not always have the right to
free expression. At last, the communist party has plunged the Laotian
people into extreme poverty with all the social, unavoidable
consequences: drugs, prostitution, and HIV.
Adopted on 15 August 1991, the Constitution has maintained the Party as
the leading cell of the political system and has determined the new role
of the Party; it refers to a Democratic Centralism and justifies the
dictatorship of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) in the
name of the multi-ethnic people; the role of the militants is
reinforced; it is also the first Constitution written sixteen years
after the communist took power in 1975. The preamble recognizes the
leadership of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ) then, the Lao
People's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) during sixty years of struggle.
The regime of the single party remains the dominant political force; the
government, the army and the bureaucracy are subordinated to it and the
main political orientations of the government are set by its Political
Bureau and its Central Committee.
Before, 1975, the power was constitutionally represented by a Buddhist
monarchy; after 1975, the power doesn't pass anymore through Buddhism,
but rather through Marxist ideology. The marxisation of the Laotian
society, its submission to a totalitarian ideology, like that of the
USSR, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba correspond to a profound and
generalized calling into question the values, the beliefs and the
traditional references.
The regime changes didn't have the support of the population because it
was dictated by Vietnam. The revolution that occurred in Laos was the
work of the Vietnamese communist who took refuge behind the leaders of
the Lao People's Revolutionary Party; hence, Laos became a part of the
Vietnamese sphere of influence. The radical change mechanism in the
destiny of Laos, namely the Neo Lao Hak Xat ( NLHX ) and Lao People's
Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) that became “ the Trojan Horse,” permitted
the Vietnamese to colonize Laos.
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THE FRIENDSHIP TREATY
(THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS)
On 17 July 1977, Laos signed a Friendship Treaty with Vietnam as well as
a special cooperation, valid for 25 years and renewable. This treaty
legalized the stationing of more than 100,000 Vietnamese soldiers
already present in Laos, to guarantee the trusteeship of Hanoi on
Vientiane and undoubtedly insured the seizure of the country; this
treaty also allows Vietnam to exploit the forest and the mines in Laos.
The special relationships between the two countries are at first
guaranteed by the presence of the Vietnamese troops' occupation in Laos,
and an extent of integration of the general staff and of the armies
which ensure a total control of the security forces by the High
Commandment of Hanoi. It is founded also the old ties of Party to Party
and the personal loyalty of the leaders. There existed, originally, only
one Indochinese Communist Party in the past thirty years of struggle in
the forest. The Indochinese Communist Party was led by the Vietnamese.
In 1951, Ho Chi Minh decided to split into three sections, namely,
Vietnamese Communist Party, Laotian Communist Party, and Cambodian
Communist Party, however, the coordination remains closely in the hand
of Hanoi. This diagram was inspired, during that period, by a hegemony
willingness of the Vietnamese, as it will be the case later, by the new
model offered then, by the USSR and by the Republics' Federation of Russia.
The block cohesion, Laos-Vietnam, goes forward through strong
imbrications of diverse partisanship instances: the Political Bureaus
have a full meting at least once a year; and , for the principal levels
of the hierarchy, the responsible persons have frequent meetings or a
general session and keep up a close collaboration.
The privileged relationships extend, of course, to state sphere, in all
domains and to all echelons. The two countries are henceforth tied by
the treaties of friendship and special cooperation, which cover the
whole military and strategic, economic and political aspects of the
problems. In the framework of Special Relationships, Laos
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confirms its anchorage to Vietnam. The Laotian army has been trained and
framed by the Vietnamese. The presence of Vietnamese officers at all
echelons of commandment, the control on the units and the security
services are furthermore reinforced because of the state of war. The
military and civil Laotian cadres are compelled periodically to attend
the political seminars which took place more often in Hanoi or
Hochiminhville.
The Vietnamese of today are assimilated in Laos and integrated in the
Laotian administration. In the long run, with the waves of colonists
settled in Laos, this country will run the risk of losing its culture,
its language and even its identity. Never will a government worthy of
its name accept to link the fate of its people to that of its hereditary
enemy. These Special Relationships of 25 years and renewable were time
designated by the Vietnamese communists to proceed to another race of
victimized Laotians. Twenty-five years was the time needed for the
Vietnamese to carry out the definitive and complete integration of this
kind of Laotians in the homogenous whole of the Great Vietnam.
With the occupation troops have come thousands of advisers, all kinds of
experts who have filled all the Laotian Ministries converted into
relay-stations carrying out the orders of Hanoi. Besides, hundreds of
thousands of “ colonists ” including whole families are invading the
country, engaged in a systematic pillage. The Lao People's Democratic
Republic is the diametrically opposite of the qualifying it has indulged
in. Only elementary liberty exists in Laos at present.
Communism is a generator of bureaucracy which has directed the Laotian
leaders to a catastrophic error in the management of the country. In
Laos, the communist revolution has not yielded the expected results. The
economic and social situation has reached its lowest level with the
multiplying of poor people. During several decades, Laos has been living
in the utopia. The people have become impoverished, but at the same
time, the members of the Nomenklatura ( social groups with exceptional
prerogatives ) have accumulated fortunes. Laos is under perfusion and
has survived thanks to the international aid.
As time elapses, the regime appears neatly usurping and illegal. It has
monopolized the power due to the support of Vietnamese armed forces and
practices it arbitrarily under their protection. Any people's referendum
has not proceeded. The communication of Laos was dictated by the
strategy of the Vietnamese Communist
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Party aiming at creating an Indochinese Federation, which would be under
its control. In effect, if the Neo Lao Issara served as cover of the
Viet-Minh in Laos, the Neo Lao Hak Xat served as cover to the Front of
Vietnam Fatherland. It is in the same way for the Lao People's
Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ), which served also as cover for the
Vietnamese Communist Party ( VCP ). The accelerated communization of
Laos was essentially imposed by the doctrinal orthodoxy, for one must
not neglect the fact that the Laotian communists were very loyal to the
Leninist tactic of the power takeover.
The establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is the fruit
of thirty years of struggle and the policies of the Indochinese
Communist Party ( ICP ) then and of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
in concert with the Vietnamese people. This constitutes a grave historic
turning point of the dramatic history of Laos and the Laotian people.
The LPRP is quite well the agent of a plan conceived and led by Hanoi.
The Vietnamese plan is to transform Laos in an annex of Vietnam.
Subjected to foreign occupation and with a regime of unrelenting
persecution, which suffocated its own country by a lack of liberty, the
Laotian people are forgotten, forsaken, and, at last ending, without
dignity and national identity. Faced with this reality, the Laotian
people demand:
1. The withdrawal of the Vietnamese occupation forces from the national
territory.
2. The cessation of all interference in the internal affairs of Laos.
3. The respect of independence and territorial integrity of Laos.
4. The ending of the dictatorial regime in view of realizing the
reconciliation and the national concord.
5. The establishment of the political regime in common accord with the
majority opinion of the Lao citizens.
6. The scrupulous respect of the fundamental liberties and human rights.
The Laotian people wish only to live in peace and on good terms with
their neighboring countries, having no other ambition than to live all
the ideological obedience and foreign interference.
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THE PERSPECTIVES
The definition that one can give to the present Laotian political
system, is a monopoly of power in the hands of a single Party ( Lao
People's Revolutionary Party ) unable to modernize the country.
Laos, has been in this situation since 1975 and can only find its safety
when it turns toward new horizons by endowing itself with the real basis
of a regime, truly democratic notably by the creation of a State of Law
provided with a National Constitution in order to establish the
structures favorable to the management of the affairs of the country and
the society.
The new reasons of hoping exist if the power combines the economic
reforms with the political reforms. In this viewpoint, the project of
society must be based on the democratic foundations because democracy
promotes the initiation and guarantee of liberty. On the economic point
of view, Laos can draw the advantage of all geopolitical possibilities
as well as the natural resources of the country. This availability of
means asset can stop the deterioration of the level of living and raise
the purchasing power of each citizen. The project of the new society
will initiate an economic growth process and a sustained development, in
view of restoring a social justice by the redistribution of wealth. The
political power must have a clear and exact vision of the future without
which the development project cannot succeed, for, this should respond
to the need of the population not only immediately but also for the next
decades.
The new society will have as a major objective promotion of democracy,
well-being, happiness, and culture of all Laotians. The Laotian people
aspire to have a truly just society, founded in democracy and on the
defence of national independence and sovereignty,
A new project of society consists of guaranteeing the future of all
citizens; it constitutes a mission for the public power which has the
duty to respecting the Laotian values as well as the democratic values:
liberty, rights, duties and responsibilities.
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It is very important to make known that the Laotians are waiting much
more on the regime change. This will be the only reform that could meet
the need of the country. Thus, be in pursuit of the following aims:
- Independence
- Sovereignty
- Democracy
- National Unity
- Liberty
- Human rights
- Cohesion and social justice
- Territorial integrity
- The practice of the peaceful coexistence principles and good
neighborliness.
Since democracy is the only way which might, at present, pull Laos from
this situation in which it dwells, such reform could be realized only
the by the means of political willingness and national reconciliation.
The United States, Europe, Asia and the countries which cherish peace
must stimulate the leaders of the Laotian communists to work out and put
in its place the new structure. But, it is proper to underline that if
Laos wants to give a good picture on the international scene, it must
first of all examine the question of social peace, for, without social
peace, the economy cannot operate. This peace could only come about on
the part of the leaders who must accept the method of democratization
chosen.
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CONCLUSION
The independence represents the supreme value of national identity, it
constitutes the fundamental foundation of the nation, and it is the
pride and the reflected light of the aspiration of the whole Laotian
people who have always devoted the immense sacrifices for Laos's
defence. Since the abolition of the constitutional monarchy, the Laos'
independence which was the subject of a diplomatic recognition of the
international authorities and the different countries throughout the
world, have been affected on more grounds than one. Thus, the
restoration of the national independence becomes a necessity.
Laos is in breakdown and the voice of Laos in the world is weakening.
Now, the Laotian people need change to build the country or a just
national order founded on the rights of the people to achieve democracy,
prosperity, and solidarity.
The life and the survival of Laos are founded on the political
relationships with its neighbors and on the balance of forces prevalent
in the region. Laos must consequently possess the capacity to manage at
the same time the regional and international juncture in taking into
account the internal and external constraints in order to safeguard
peace, security, and national unity.
The future of Laos must depend essentially on democracy which needs a
policy of national concord, cooperation and solidarity based on a
spirit, sine qua non condition of independence, sovereignty, unity,
territorial integrity, and human rights because the future of the
country implies a realistic polity. It is a national urgency.
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Actually, as a singularity, the word "problem" is not enough to
describe Laos doldrums, which encompass literature, history, science,
governance, politics, economics, education, government, transportation
and communication infrastructures, etc.
I noted governance, politics, and government individually and
SPECIFICALLY because they are different spheres of reality.
America's GOVERNMENT, for the last 7 plus years, is, for example, run
by Bush and his "We gonna save the world and you either stand with us
righteous and Godly people, or you are against us" idiots. These are
little more self-righteous idiots who live and believe in a world
where they are the good white cowboys and the rest are either good or
bad Indians; the good ones are the ones allow them to do whatever with
the land, including the taking of it all, through stupid deals or
through force.
The rest are just bad Indians.
Of, among these idiotic Conservative/GOP/Bushites are the FANATICS who
believe the "only good Indians are dead ones."
Anyway, if you are like these Bushites, and you think you are good and
Godly and any one who are against you are just plain evil, your scheme
of things are mostly black and white: you are uniters; they are
dividers; you are good; they are bad; you are patriots; they are
suspicious until proven innocent; you are never the cause of world
problems but mere victims as well as do-gooders.
Can you imagine the Bushite crowds running all three branches of our
federal government? Right now --- for the most part, the last 7 years
--- the riligious right, Bush idiots, Conservatives, and GOP are
controlling the White House and the Supreme Court. In the Supreme
Court, not out right; but they have 4 SOLIDLY Conservative judges who
believe IN THE PAST, the good ole days.
These are the idiots who keep complaining that Liberals judges are
"history revisionists" and that they are judical activitist, and that
AS SUCH these stupid Liberals would ruin America ---- so it is up to
them, these Conservatives, to REACH BACK to the past, to INTERPRET the
CONSTITUTION like IT WAS MEANT to be, as when it was originally
written.
Never mind, that when it was originally, AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN,
about 80 percent of Americans were not considered citizens and had no
voting rights. And phrases like "All men are created equal" WERE
MEANT TO BE A PHRASE THAT APPLIED TO RULING CLASS WHITE MEN, here in
America, and their BRITISH COUNTERPARTS, in England, and that such a
phrase HAD NO LOCAL MEANING, applying to none of the people here other
than those few ruling, educated White males. Their own mothers,
sisters, and wives were not even counted!
In any event, imagine these stupid, shallow jurists and outright
Bushites idiots DECLARING America to be solely under THEIR ONE PARTY,
the GOP's domain, and that everyone else had to live as good citizens
LIKE THEY ARE, and MUST NOT QUESTION them, because the GOP/
Conservatives and Godly religious folks ARE everything all of us is or
will be... and if everyone would just do as THE PARTY (GOP) says ---
being that it is the CORRECT PARTY, with God and all --- and soon, we
will have establish a glorious society READY FOR JESUS SECOND RETURN.
Imagine that.
Yes, I used "bad" words and I exaggerated a bit, to show the idiocy of
these people's "core" thinking; but essentially, that's how theye
operate.
In any event, Bush's idiots run our government; but they do NOT
enshrine in the Constitution, that they are THE ONLY ONE idiocracy
legal or needed, like the Lao People's Revolutionary Party does, in
Laos.
To great degree, the Bushites still have to conform to minimum
CONSTITUTIONAL rule of law, even if they try to ignore it whenever and
wherever politically expedient, so they could "go after very evil
people".
So, point is, they only run the GOVERNMENT, on a temporary bais. The
GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE of America's over-all democracy is still an old,
boring, and largely stable one, with sufficient INSTITUTIONAL "checks
and balances."
POLITICS ---- the third feature ---- is, of course, HIGHLY PARTISAN
and we expect it to be so, because DIFFERENT GROUPS, with different
ideas about politics, about government, about governance structures,
etc. FIGHT PASSIONATELY for CONTROL or some control of our society,
our government.
But with DIFFERENT political parties, groups, and ideas there exists
SOME BALANCE that tilts hither and thither, that swings back and
forth, following how ONE group, or the other, is able to amount either
grassroots movemments, subtle voting-buying (either through bone-
tossing oratory skills or through actually dolling out bread crumps),
or a combination of both.
Laos --- under the current ONE-PARTY-IS-THE-BEST, especially under the
good and correct leadership of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
--- is going through a very protracted and vicious cycle, because the
ruling folks and their ONE-PARTY declaring THAT PARTY to epitomize
goodness, righteousness, legality, law, correctness, decorum,
propriety, decency, morality, ethics, and all that you could think
of. Very much like these idiotid Christian or Muslim fanatics we make
fun of so much, sometimes at our own risks of death, here in the West.
That's Laos and the Laotians "problem".
The Laotians --- there are many and they are diverse, in dress, in
thoughts, in beliefs, in political ideas, in educational ideas, in
politics, in governance structure, etc., etc. ---- are in a set of
doldrums that is very difficult to get out of.
I'm sure you have SOME, a few, highly intelligent leaders (whether in
politics or in education or simply at the local level, as elders and
statesmen --- who, given a conducive environment, would be able to
HELP GUIDE the promulgation of PARTY-FREE ruling CONSITUTION for all
of Laos and all of her different and diverse population ------- so
that no matter who you are, how you think, SO LONG AS YOUR GOALS are
to make the GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE more efficient, you are allow to
ADVOCATE for your cause, your constituents, your ideas, BE IT grass-
roots movements or heated DEBATES in Vientiane, at the congressional/
national law-making level.
I am sure there are SOME of those neutral and smart and intelligent
people/leaders in Laos, in 2008.
But because THE PARTY is so right, so good, so overwhelming it
dictates all DECREES that Laos is under. And whatever the LPRP passes
as laws are nothing but decrees.
I mean, how are you going to challenge a certain "law" if you don't
like it, in Laos, today?, if you believe that law is illegal or
unconstitutional?
You can't, because the LPRP DECREES what the Constitution of Laos is,
how it is interpreted, and WHO knows it enough as "experts" to
interprete it, and so on.
Your chances of legally, politically, and in any other venue
CHALLENGING laws in Laos is NOT IN EXISTENCE. Because, again, the
PARTY, the Lao PDR IS THE LAW ITSELF, though it says "there are some
corrupt middle cadres" who are just needing of weeding out, ad
nauseam.
You can not reform a society ---- by reform its various institutional
infrastructures, from thoughts to physical institutions like courts
--- when those in the government say THEY ARE THE GOVERNMENT, the
governor, the governed, and THE ONLY ONE(s) needed or legal.
So, as you can see: these ARE VERY PROTRACTED times in Laos history.
Mark my words:
In the next 2 generations, struggling and highly corrupt and wheeling-
dealing Cambodia will outshine Laos many folds, in the various MAJOR
human indexes like education/literacy, child mortality and longevity,
economic achievements and per capita income, science and research and
development, implementing every better and ever more efficient rule of
law, etc., etc.
We all feel, to different degrees, for our old country ---- for those
of us who knew it intimately as children and young people. Laos
nurtured many of us during our most formative years, and so we will
never forget it.
But Laos will go through many generations of vicious and
protractedness, because those in charge of Laos government today were
NOT the brightest, when we and our parents were growing up.
Those who are in charge of Laos today were collegues and other
contemporaneous country men ---- some older and others younger --- who
were good at being brutal, being tough, being good with guns and
violence, being good as gossips and smooth talking; MOST OF THEM were
were NOT your high school valedictorians, your nerds, your academic
prodigies.
Today, they are the rulers of Laos, after many years of living and
fighting in caves.
They and their apprentices --- who are now in their 20's, 30's, 40's
and 50's ---- are NOT equipped educationally, intellectually to handle
broad thinking that would unite diverse people with diverse and
different AND COMPETITING ideas.
Like Bush and his idiotic crowds, here in America, these rulers of
Laos today see only black and white: either them or not them; if it
is them, it is good, right, correct, patriots.... if it is not them,
it is illegal, bad, negative and negative phenomenal, not acceptable,
etc.
As you can see, the "problem" is NOT difficult to see, to identify.
Knowing HOW to go about changing "it", that's the challenge for Laos
and the Laotians.
They either continue to live and believe in these nonsense the Lao
People's Revolutionary Party dishes out, as decrees. Or they
challenge that PARTY. Either alternative is not easy or seemingly
doable. Either alternative requires CHARISMATIC individuals; but even
people like Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Aung San Suu Kyi live vacariously,
at the tolerance of those with the guns and police. Their lives can
be snubbed out if those in the regimes wanted it so....
These are not easy problems to solve, even if easily seen, and seen/
identified, to great degrees, to be correct....
ອີ່ລຸງທອງວັນ
welcome back teacher.
casalao
top of the year to you.
hehehe... you be smearing the good name of the Lao PDR spokesman,
thanouxay and others for calling them this and that. did you know that
quite a few of them hold degrees from western countries like france
and australia?
and on top of everything, the old muonglao still enjoys some peace and
stability now and a couple more decades to come until the day when
china up north and the US have some foreign and economic policy
clashes.
here are some links to some interesting stuff on today's china:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/01/the-last-empire.html
http://www.newsweek.com/id/57258
her...@hotmail.com
Any one, with no severe mental retardation, can be trained to read
scripts, even if some do read it better than others.
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The Jews held their property in peace under Cyrus in Babylon; hence they
could well have the law.
Josephus, in the whole history of Esdras, does not say one word about this
restoration. 2 Kings 17:27.
634. If the story in Esdras is credible, then it must be believed that the
Scripture is Holy Scripture; for this story is based only on the authority
of those who assert that of the Seventy, which shows that the Scripture is
holy.
Therefore, if this account be true, we have what we want therein; if not, we
have it elsewhere. And thus those who would ruin the truth of our religion,
founded on Moses, establish it by the same authority by which they attack
it. So by this providence it still exists.
635. Chronology of Rabbinism. (The citations of pages are from the book
Pugio.)
Page 27. R. Hakadosch (anno 200), author of the Mischna, or vocal law, or
second law.
Commentaries on the Mischna (anno 340): The one Siphra.
Barajetot.
Talmud Hierosol.
Tosiphtot.
Bereschit Rabah, by R. Osaiah Rabah, commentary on the Mischna.
Bereschit Rabah, Bar Naconi, are subtle and pleasant discourses, historical
and theological. This same author wrote the books called Rabot.
A hundred years after the Talmud Hierosol was composed the Babylonian
Talmud, by R. Ase, A.D. 440, by the universal consent of all the Jews, who
are necessarily obliged to observe all that is contained therein.
The addition of R. Ase is called the Gemara, that is to say, the commentary
on the Mischna.
And the Talmud includes together the Mischna and the Gemara.
636. If does not indicate indifference: Malachi, Isaiah.
Isaiah, Si volumus, etc.
In quacumque die.[115]
637. Prophecies.--The sceptre was not interrupted by the captivity in
Babylon, because the return was promised and foretold.
638. Proofs of Jesus Christ.--Capt
Phi Dung Mo
Also a Jesus freek? Mon Dieu, what has the world come to?
Phi Dung Mo
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we all can learn from things like these and make a corrective action
to ourselves, for the upper and lowers citizens to cure our
illness...and then move the country to a new step.
we must develope a method or way of removing people from permanently
position and power, to be able to restore the trust and moving to
change for the goods of the people and the country.
B2BMh