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“Seven Hmong Families Forced to Laos Amid Tear Gas”
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 5:52 pm
Press Release: Center for Public Policy Analysis
“Seven Hmong Families Forced to Laos Amid Tear Gas”
Washington, D.C. and Nong Khai, Thailand, August 12, 2009
Contact: Maria Gomez, DCD
info@centerforpublicpolicyanalysis.org
Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) www.centerforpublicpolicyanalysis.org
SNIPPET: “United States Senator Jim Webb, of Virginia, is visiting Burma, Thailand, Laos and Southeast Asia this week and, like U.S. Secretary of State Clinton, is expected to seek to urge the Thai military to stop forcing Laotian and Hmong refugees back to the communist regime in Laos that they fled.
Prior to Senator Webb’s visit to Southeast Asia, a senior level Lao communist official visited Lao Hmong refugees in Thailand seeking to persuade them to return to Laos voluntarily, which they refused. In response to the refusal of the Lao Hmong go back to Laos, elements of the Royal Thai Third Army and Thai Ministry of the Interior are reportedly using electric tazer-like guns, electric cattle prods and severe beatings to seek to “volunteer” and force Lao Hmong refugees and asylum seekers at Ban Huay Nam Khao refugee camp in Thailand.
The visit of the Lao communist official to the camp follows discussions in Thailand by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton with Thai Prime Minister Abhisit about the Laos, Hmong refugee crisis.”
A shame-
The Laotian Hmong and General Vang Pao were good allies.
Brave people. “Meo Maquis” (Meo = Chineese subsect) (Marquis = “the bush”)