“With the Lao government increasing discredited in the eyes of many Lao people because of corruption and systemic human rights violations, senior army and politburo officials in Hanoi have launched a renewed campaign to assisting the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (LPDR), and Lao Peoples Army (LPA) in seeking to suppress and eliminate political and religious opposition groups and dissidents who oppose the one-party military regime,” said Mr. Smith "Because of the civil unrest against the LPDR regime, Hanoi, through state and army controlled telecommunications companies in Vietnam and Laos, has ordered the Vietnamese military to carefully monitoring all cell phone and telephone communications in Laos as a result of the crackdown and arrests" Smith noted. “Electronics and telecommunications signal intelligence and intercept units have been deployed to Laos by the Vietnamese Army to assist the LPDR regime’s crackdown, arrests and domestic surveillance of the Laotian people.” “Presently, a new round of arrests by secret police and army units in Laos have swelled the numbers of Laotians caught up in the government’s effort to try to stop peaceful anti-government, pro-democracy protests in Vientiane and elsewhere in Laos, Smith observed. Full Article at PR-Inside.com