Revolutionary Heart

More on this later, but I've been learning more today about the legal system in a single-party state. Shocking! There are only about 100 lawyers registered with the fledgling Laos Bar. That's 100 lawyers in a country of about 6 million people. My guess is that most of those 100 lawyers are in and around Vientiane, and very few are out in the rural areas of Laos. My law school just graduated more trained attorney's in one year than the whole of this country.

I've also been learning about the security apparatus here. It's not like Myanmar, but people do feel that they are being watched by the Party.

Kind of shocking. More later.