Bizarre twist at the Laos border

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Shaun Turton and Mech Dara

 

As tensions between Cambodia and Laos flared over an ongoing territorial dispute in February, Lao soldiers seized and imprisoned a Cambodian border policeman, Sing In, who said he was drinking wine at his Lao wife’s native village across the border.

 

In became the unwitting pawn in a fractious game between Laos and Cambodia, whose forces are standing off across still-unmarked sections of border that both governments have nonetheless increasingly sought to enforce in recent months.

 

Soon after In was taken, Cambodian gendarmes cooperating in a manhunt led by border police detained six Laotians on a roadside in Stung Treng province.

 

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