Congressional Forum on Laos to discuss Hmong refugee in Thailand and persecutions of the Hmong in Laos.
The United States' secret war in Laos ended 1975, but the killings of the Hmong people who were recruited by US/CIA to the communists expansionism in SEA are still on going to the present.
(PressZoom) - The new flux of refugees in Thailand and the persecutions of the Hmong in Laos are resulting from the war that the United States created in Vietnam 40 years ago. The killings of the innocent Hmong in Laos for over 32 years, because the gangster government of Laos implemented its ethnic cleansing policy against its own people who had helped the Americans during the war years.
According to a 2001 investigation by the Orange County Register, Hanoi's communist regime imprisoned a million Vietnamese without charge in "re-education" camps, where an estimated 165,000 perished. "Thousands were abused or tortured: their hands and legs shackled in painful positions for months, their skin slashed by bamboo canes studded with thorns, their veins injected with poisonous chemicals, their spirits broken with stories about relatives being killed," the Register reported.
Laos and Cambodia also fell to communists in 1975. Time magazine reported in 1978 that some 40,000 Laotians had been imprisoned in re-education camps: "The regime's figures do not include 12,000 unfortunates who have been packed off to Phong Saly. There, no pretense at re-education is made. As one high Pathet Lao official told Australian journalist John Everingham, who himself spent eight days in a Lao prison last year, 'No one ever returns.'"
The postwar horrors of Vietnam and Laos paled next to the "killing fields" of Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge undertook an especially vicious revolution. During that regime's 3-year rule, at least a million Cambodians, and perhaps as many as two million, died from starvation, disease, overwork or murder. The Vietnamese invaders who toppled the Khmer Rouge in 1979 were liberators, albeit only by comparison.
In the aftermath of America's withdrawal from Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of refugees fled Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. According to the U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees, between 1975 and 1995 more than 1.4 million Indochinese escaped, nearly 800,000 of them by boat. This does not include "boat people" who died at sea, 10% of the total by some estimates.
Again in Laos: United States' Time Asia Magazine and Fact Finding Commission; the United Kingdom's BBC, French's Journalist without borders, and several others international media had reported repeatedly about the genocide, and the persecutions of the Hmong who had helped the United States during the Vietnam War and the Christians in Laos by the current gangster government of Laos. The United States department of states, the Amnesty International, the independent human rights groups confirmed that there are still persecutions of the Hmong ethnic minorities who were recruited by the United States to fight the communists on their behalf in Southeast Asia. The situations in Laos are critical and urgent as you see from the Congresses' resolutions such: S.R. 240, H. Res. 169, H. Con. Res. 318, S. Res. 475, and H. Res. 402.
The Laotian students which demonstrated peacefully on the street in Vientiane, Laos in 1999 asked the regime to reform, are still in the jail.
According to a traveler who does not want to identify his name, traveled to Nong Het on Route 7, Xiengkhouang Province, Laos said, "from around June 12, 2007 to the present, the military trucks unloaded Vietnamese troops at the border, then the soldiers walk in the direction to the Plains of Jars, mostly at night times.
The Associated Press Published: July 29, 2007 in MANILA, Philippines: "Southeast Asian diplomats have failed to reach full agreement on creation of a human rights commission under a landmark charter they are drafting, a diplomat said Sunday. Diplomats in an ASEAN task force writing the charter will submit a draft that includes formation of a rights commission to the bloc's foreign ministers at their annual meeting in Manila on Monday, a diplomat on the task force said. But the document will state that Myanmar did not accept the commission, leaving it to the ministers to resolve the issue, the diplomat told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of not being authorized to speak to the media. Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam also suggested they are not ready for the immediate establishment of such a body, which could deal with human rights violations in the region, the diplomat said."
This shows that the gangster government of Laos is not willing to stop the killings of its own people.
The United States must stop the deportations/repatriations of the Hmong refugees at Houi Nam Khao, Phetchaboon, Thailand to Laos and solve the problems in Laos as soon as possible to prevent more Hmong women, children and elders from the killings by the Lao PDR gangster government, or bring all the Hmong people to the United States of America.
These people ( Hmong ) are freedom lover, they are not terrorists.
Colonel Wangyee Vang
Founder and National President
Lao Veterans of America, Inc.
August 2, 2007
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