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We, the Lao people are not the only people that against this dam; just because we cannot take our voices to the street and tell the world what is right and wrong by build this dam. Vietnam and Cambodia are also against this dam as well as the people of Thailand. Lao is a tiny country and keep building dam all over this tiny country will not elevate Lao people from poverty, but a major destruction on environmental and economic disasters.
Jul 10, 2012 02:19 PM
Reply to this commentIt is an honor for Laos to welcome Ms.Clinton the top and great diplomat from the United States on its soil. Laos as one of the least developed, one of the poorest countries in the world and famous as the most bombed on earth needs to rely on the hydroelectric dams on the Mekong in order to bring itself from the poverty. Any advice and indirect influence to stop the construction of the dams from outside to please any new ally au detriment of Laos’s interests are not welcome.
Jul 09, 2012 11:04 PM
Reply to this commentIf possible, we would like Max Avary & Rachel Vandenbrink Lao service to take these questions directly to U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton.
In regarding to U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton to visit Lao, we the Lao people urging Hillary Clinton to pressure the Lao Communist Government to do the following things:
1. Stop Xaiyaburi Dam.
2. Urging the Lao communist
government to release those
political prisoners.
3. To pressure the Lao communist
government to enact Democratic
Reforms(Just as she did in
Burma).
Jul 08, 2012 04:45 PM
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Laos needs to learn from China how to proceed to building the hydroelectric dams on the Mekong River.The requirement and conditions put forward by the downstream countries are selfish and intrinsic; their real intention is to kill the dam's projects on the Mekong for good.It seems to me that they are looking to monopolize the Mekong for their exclusive use to rice farming and fishing.The upstream countries are deprived of right to use the mekong for their own interests.
Jul 13, 2012 04:44 PM
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