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Rally at Capitol speaks for Hmong lost in Laos
Posted March 25th, 2008 by adminBy Stephen Magagnini
The tear-stained struggle to save several thousand Hmong hiding in the Lao jungles and another 8,000 Hmong refugees in Thailand returned to the State Capitol on Monday morning.
Hundreds of Northern California Hmong, along with Vietnam veterans and state legislators, rallied around 71 white wooden crosses, each representing the soul of a Hmong who died this year in Laos.
Hmong protest planned at state Capitol
Posted March 25th, 2008 by adminBy Stephen Magagnini
About 1,000 Northern California Hmong are expected to gather at the state Capitol today to protest the alleged deaths of 71 Hmong in Laos this year.
The deaths – 49 from starvation and 22 at the hands of Lao soldiers between Jan. 15 and Feb. 10 – were documented by the Oroville-based Fact Finding Commission, a nonprofit group in contact with Hmong in Laos, said organizer Vaming Xiong.
The Lao government has repeatedly denied that Hmong are being persecuted or killed.
U.S. State Department officials had no comment Friday on the deaths.
Hmong Rally at California State Capital to Protect Laos Human Rights Violations
Sacramento, CA - Thousands of Hmong Americans and US Veterans will join
other concerned California citizens in a Rally to protest human rights
violations taking place in Laos as well as the plans by Thailand to return
8,000 Hmong refugees back to Laos. The Rally, which will be held At 11:30 am
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at the North Steps of the California State Capitol
Building is being sponsored and hosted by California State Assemblyman Dave
Jones and Vaming Xiong, Director of the Hmong American Ad Hoc Committee of
Sacramento.
The Lost Tribe, Part 1
Posted March 14th, 2008 by MouaLoPart 1
Video from Al Jazeera, with their correspondent Tony Birtley traveling for two days from the town of Phon Savan to reach their jungle hideout -- the first television journalist ever to do so.
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The Lost Tribe, Part 2
Posted March 14th, 2008 by MouaLoPart 2
Video from Al Jazeera, with their correspondent Tony Birtley traveling for two days from the town of Phon Savan to reach their jungle hideout -- the first television journalist ever to do so.
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2008 CRS Report for Congress: Laos: Background and U.S. Relations
Posted March 5th, 2008 by MouaLoOn January 2008, Congress has released a report for Laos and U.S. Relations.
Here is the Table of Contents for the Report.
Contents
U.S. Interests and Bilateral Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
U.S. Assistance Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Policy Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Developments of the Past Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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Thailand forcibly repatriated 12 Hmong refugees
Posted March 5th, 2008 by MouaLoReport by Fact Finding Commision
February 28, 2008
On February 27, 2007 at about one o’clock p.m. Bangkok time, twelve (12) Hmong refugees from the Huay Nam Khao camp, Phetchabun Province, were forced by Thai military to return to Laos, their native country where they tried to escape persecution. Initially, during the forced repatriation process, some of the refugees thought these four families were part of the 136 families that were screened in December 2007 who had volunteered to return.
Defence ministries to talk about Hmong
Posted February 25th, 2008 by adminLaos ready to take them, says Noppadon By Thanida Tansubhapol
Thailand and Laos have agreed that the issue of resettling Hmong refugees
will be handled by the defence ministries of the two nations, Foreign
Minister Noppadon Pattama said. Mr Noppadon, who has just returned from a
two-day visit to Laos, said he discussed the issue with Lao Deputy Prime
Minister and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisulid and Lao Prime Minister
Bounsorn Budpawan.
It was a sensitive matter, he said.
Both sides agreed to ask the General Border Committee (GBC) under the
The Killing Fields of Laos
Posted February 16th, 2008 by MouaLoThis information was passed on by Fact Finding Commission (Feb 16th, 2008):
On February 8, 2008 Radio Free Asia reported the Lao government had stepped up it’s efforts to exterminate the Secret War Veterans and their families still hiding in the mountains.
Congress extends welcome to ex-Hmong fighters
Posted December 25th, 2007 by adminBY MICHAEL DOYLE
McClatchy Newspapers
Article Last Updated: 12/22/2007 12:30:28 AM CST
WASHINGTON - Hmong and Vietnamese refugees who fought for the United States a generation ago will get another chance to join their countrymen in Minnesota and elsewhere under a big spending bill now heading to the White House.
The bill relaxes an anti-terrorist rule that's kept Southeast Asian refugees stuck in overseas camps or unable to obtain a green card.
