Word: samar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long report to Geneva, the International Control Commission, which is supposed to be policing the truce, simply threw up its hands. Wrote Chairman Samar Sen, an Indian civil servant: "In the jungle, it is nearly impossible to say who shot first or who gave the first provocation." Obviously, unsympathetic to what he called "the Boun Oum group," Sen said he had no "detailed evidence" to back up repeated government charges of Pathet Lao raids-and he showed no desire to go into the jungle...