While Lao officials like to blame the violent unrest on “bandits,” Laos are beginning to think that there is more than criminals at work this time.
The following is a list of bombings and shooting incidents reported by RFA:
•The 10-year-old daughter of a government military officer died in a shootout at the officer's residence in Xaysomboun Province on Nov. 12;
•Three soldiers were killed between Nov. 15 and Nov. 18 when they pursued the anti-government resistance group, which sustained unknown casualties;
•Between Nov. 15 and 18th, in two separate incidents in which passenger vehicles were fired upon, one person was killed and six others were injured;
• Other shootouts reported between soldiers and anti-government forces between Nov. 25 and Dec. 2, but casualties are unknown;
•Fifteen assailants on Dec. 15 shot two motorcyclists in Anouvong district of Xaysomboun province as they traveled along the road to Longchaeng district killing one and injuring another;
•Three days later, assailants shot at a truck transporting beer on Nammo bridge in Anouvong district, injuring two people ;
•On Dec. 28 a bomb damaged a truck on the road to a Phu Bia Mining Company work camp;
•A bomb was diffused by soldiers on the road to Namphanoy village on Dec. 30;
•On Jan. 14 gunmen shot up a passenger bus on Route 13 North in the Kasy district in Vientiane province, injuring one passenger;
•Three soldiers were injured on Jan. 21 on the road between the Luang Phanxay and the Phoukongkhao village;
•Two Chinese were killed and another injured in a Jan. 24 bomb blast near Pha Nok Kok village.
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