No doubt about it 100 % the Lao communists who have no brain and very corrupted kidnapped him.It doesn't make any sense to be the another way . When Mrs Anne Sophie NGO Chief was deported because she reported about the Lao corrupted and the human being right to the UN . The next step ,the Lao communists must destroy the witness and the evidences.So they must get rid of Dr. Sombath Somphone who knew too much. They should legally arrest him and put him on trial and let the court punished him if Dr. Sombath broke Lao law and if they could prove ,Dr. Sombath Somphone was guilty .They had done what they have always been done with thousand of people who we anti-communist in the old way like Stalin style just send KGB make the political rival vanished .