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In 1982, the LNLF succeeded in briefly establishing the Royal Lao Democratic Government [31] (proclaimed in exile in Bangkok on 18 August 1982 earlier that year) in a collection of southern Lao provinces largely due to support and aid from the People's Republic of China, [32] which despite being a communist state like Laos, maintained rather ...
On 29 May 1975, about 10,000 Hmong people, attempted to cross Hin Heup bridge traveling to Vientiane. As the group crossed the bridge Pathet Lao forces open fire on the column using mortars, M16s, and bayonets. Many people jumped into the river to flee the firing troops, by the end of the massacre 14 civilians were killed and over 100 wounded.
On December 27, 2009, The New York Times reported that the Thai military was preparing to forcibly return 4,000 Hmong asylum seekers to Laos by the end of the year: [42] the BBC later reported that repatriations had started. [43] Both United States and United Nations officials have protested this action.
The government of Laos has been accused by the U.S., United Nations and human rights organizations of committing genocide against that country's Hmong ethnic minority. [ 2 ] Some Hmong groups fought as CIA-backed units on the Royalist side in the Laos civil war.
Vang was responsible for the United Nations's recognition of the word Hmong as the proper term for the Hmong people. [1] Additionally, he testified in the United States Congress, and at the United Nations in New York City and Geneva]l on numerous occasions on the Hmong genocide in Laos. [2]
“If history isn’t documented, then it’s forgotten,” a librarian involved in creating Fresno State’s Hmong history repository said. Hmong culture in 1960s war-torn Laos documented by ...
The government of Laos has been accused of committing genocide against the Hmong in collaboration with the Vietnamese army, [5] [6] with up to 100,000 killed out of a population of 400,000. [7] [8] From 1975 to 1996, the United States resettled some 250,000 Lao refugees from Thailand, including 130,000 Hmong. [9]
A human rights lawyer who was arrested in neighboring Laos has been deported back to China, his attorney said, despite pleas from rights groups and United Nations experts for his release. Lu Siwei ...