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February 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Alexander Lee was found dead in a Laos hotel room last Saturday.
IT’S a destination slightly off the well-worn tourist trail where young Australians have fun and relax. But Alexander Lee’s holiday in Laos ended in tragedy, with police finding the 22-year-old Yarraville man dead beside a Dutch woman in a hotel room in Luang Prabang province on Saturday.
Mr Lee is the third young Australian man to die in Laos in the past month.
His mother, Mary-Anne Rushford, said her family was devastated by the tragedy and had been looking forward to Alex’s return home in a week.
”He had a wicked sense of humour and an easy-going nature and loved nothing more than spending time with his mates,” she said.
”His real passion was discovering the world and he had travelled extensively through Europe and Asia in recent years.”
The 22-year-old was completing a bachelor of business at Victoria University and was a loved and treasured part of the family.
Ms Rushford said the family had been overwhelmed by the support from Mr Lee’s friends and the Yarraville community.
Laos authorities said the bodies of the young Melbourne man and 18-year-old Dutch woman Rianne Brouwer were surrounded with prescription medication and empty beer bottles – although this is not information that has been relayed to the family by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Soudaphone Khomthavong , the deputy director of Luang Prabang provincial tourism department, said Mr Lee had been in Laos with Ms Brouwer since January 5. They checked in to the backpacker-friendly Riverside Guest House in the Muang Ngoi district on January 31 but were not seen by hotel staff until they discovered their bodies several days later, she said.
Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that Ms Brouwer lived in Bakkum in the Netherlands and graduated from college last year.
Ms Soudaphone said the couple were found naked, with a blanket covering half their bodies. There were no signs of injury.
She said various medications had been found in the room and would be tested. An autopsy would determine how the pair died. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was notified of the death on Tuesday and said it was providing assistance to Mr Lee’s family.
A department spokesman said travel advice to Laos was under constant review and information had been updated on Wednesday in light of two fatal tubing accidents. It was impossible to update travel advice following Mr Lee’s death because the cause of death had not yet been confirmed, he said.
Mr Lee is the third Australian backpacker to die in Laos in the past month. The other men died in tubing accidents at Vang Vieng, a tourist destination on the Nam Song River.
Sydneysider Lee Hudswell, 26, died after leaping from a tower into the river, while tubing on January 10. Melbourne man Daniel Eimutis, 19, was on holidays with six friends when he vanished while tubing at Vang Vieng, triggering a frantic search by family and friends. The University of Melbourne student’s body was found in a river three days later on January 26.
Tubing is an increasingly popular tourist activity that involves drifting down a river in a rubber tube, floating from bar to bar. It is considered a rite of passage for many tourists who travel to the south-east Asian country.
Laos is still considered relatively undeveloped in tourism but its limestone mountains, French colonial towns and Buddhist temples attract about 15,000 Australians a year.
As more Australians travel overseas to increasingly exotic and remote locations, an average of 1600 are getting into trouble every day, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Almost 7 million Australians travel overseas each year, up from 2.1 million two decades ago, with holidays making up 82 per cent of all trips.
With NINO BUCCI
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