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Originally Posted by DeadLink
i am stuck here since feb 2020
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I have a question to you and anyone else who is (still) physically in town. I see that they bulldozed the farms in a village on the outskirts of VTE, back at the end of 2019. There were also a few arrests here and there around the same time; you can find Chinese language articles on these. My question is simple: the farms are still in operation elsewhere? Have you seen or heard of any crackdowns?
I am asking as the situation in Laos can change without warning. The village farms I mentioned above had been there since eternity (10+ years!), yet were demolished/made to close at the end of 2019. Something definitely happened for the government to take such drastic measures.
I have also heard that some other places disappeared in VV. In Boten too, simply because they were in the way of construction. I am just wondering if the government is really getting tough now, or is everything as it used to be?