This article is the 10th in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Features and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate.

BANGKOK: President Barack Obama’s ‘pivot to Asia’ policy that realigned US relationship to Asia, is largely regarded favorably in this region. Yet, his farewell visit to Asia ‘unpivoted’ a darker side of America’s involvement in Asia – of horrendous war crimes committed by the US in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s for which Washington is yet to be held accountable.

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