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The wife of missing Lao development expert Sombath Somphone on Tuesday marked eight years since his disappearance with no information on the case from the communist government in Vientiane whose agents are believed to have taken him away.
“December 15 is the eighth anniversary of my husband Sombath’s disappearance, and throughout these eight years I have still missed him and want him to return to his family,” Sombath’s wife Ng Shui Meng said, speaking to Radio Free Asia’s Lao Service on Dec. 9.
“So far, I have received no updates from Lao officials on their investigation into Sombath’s disappearance, and I still don’t know where he is,” she said.
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Sombath Somphone returned to Laos from the US to serve the poor, to teach and inspire the young, and follow his heart. (Photo: YouTube)
“It does not matter how many years or how many days this suffering goes on. I will never give up searching for Sombath. I will continue my search until I know what happened to Sombath. As long as I am alive, I will never give up my search.”
These are the words of Shui Meng Ng on the eve of the eighth anniversary of the disappearance of her husband, Sombath Somphone, a Lao development worker who was snatched in front of a police station in Vientiane, Laos, on Dec. 15, 2012.