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The insurgency in Laos is a low-intensity conflict between the Laotian government on one side and former members of the Secret Army, Laotian royalists, and rebels from the Hmong and lowland Lao ethnic minorities on the other.
In early 1955, a United States Operation Mission was set up in Laos. Its primary purpose was supply of military defense materials to the Royal Lao Government; 80% of its budget was dedicated to this purpose. [44] The United States paid 100% of the Lao military budget. [20] However, the embassy staff was not up to monitoring this program.
Many ethnic Hmong fought for the CIA-backed Secret Army against the Pathet Lao during the civil war, [150] and have fought an insurgency against the Laotian government since 1975, as a result ethnic Hmong in Laos have been subject to human rights abuses and persecution. [151] [152] [153] Some have labelled this persecution as genocide.
“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 ...
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.
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]
The results of Daniels' work were that 53,700 Hmong and other highland peoples of Laos were resettled in the United States between 1975 and 1982. Several thousand were also settled in other countries. Also by 1982, another 104,000 Lao refugees, including Hmong, had fled Laos and were living in refugee camps, mostly in Ban Vinai, in Thailand ...
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]