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Today, most Hmong people in Laos live peacefully in villages and cities, but small groups of Hmong people, many of them second or third generation descendants of former CIA soldiers, remain internally displaced in remote parts of Laos, in fear of government reprisals.
Persecuted as an ethnic minority in their ancestral lands in China, the Hmong fled first to the mountains of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. There, tens of thousands fought for the United States in ...
The clan (xeem; 姓) has been a dominant organizing force in Hmong society. [4] There are about eighteen Hmong clans that are known in Laos and Thailand. [5] Clan membership is inherited upon birth or occasionally through adoption.
In 2015, the Hmong in Laos numbered 595,028. [96] Hmong settlement there is nearly as ancient as in Vietnam. After the 1975 Communist victory, thousands of Hmong from Laos had to seek refuge abroad (see Laos below). Approximately 30 percent of the Hmong have left, although the only concrete figure we have is that of 116,000 Hmong from Laos and ...
“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 special day honors the bravery, sacrifice, and loyalty to the United States exhibited by the Lao-Hmong. The Lao-Hmong Recognition Day was held in recognition and to honor of the Lao-Hmong Special Guerrilla Units (SGU) Veterans, "America's Secret Army and Most Loyal Allies". The SGUs were composed of indigenous Laotians, especially members ...
Xaisomboun (also Saysomboun, Lao: ໄຊສົມບູນ) was a special zone (khetphiset) of Laos, located in the north of the country, near the capital Vientiane. [1] The special zone was created 1994 by the military, with area split off from the provinces Vientiane and Xiangkhoang, in order to control and suppress the postwar Hmong resistance. [2]
News of Xiong’s death shocked the St. Paul community, and tributes poured in from friends, loved ones and elected officials. ... Xiong was born in Laos in 1973, ... “Today the Hmong diaspora ...