The Hmong, as you may know, were totally abandoned by the US after they fought on America's side during the “secret war” during the Vietnam War. They ask me questions such as “Why can’t America buy me a new leg?” I have to explain to them that the US government now considers them outlaw terrorists even though they are fighting for our cause over 30 later. A couple of years ago on a trip to Laos the Lao Peoples Army forces ( LPA )
killed about 35 Hmong a few kilometers from where I was …one man was shot directly in the face and survived. Late in 2007 a Hmong “guerilla” fighter turned in over 150 starving women and children to a village headman about 16 kilometers from the town center of Phonsavan, northeast Laos.
The Hmong are taken to these refuge type detention centers and are malnourished and mistreated according to the last sources from the outside world who actually clandestinely saw one. I have seen the malnourished Hmong in rural Laos about 15 kilometers from Luang Prabang. Normally, a visitor wouldn’t see this since one needs a guide and paperwork signed off on. The Lao government is very particular as to what aspects of their society outsiders can legally see. This latest development could be a mass genocide in the making.
Here is the beginning of the article:
"Lao Hmong civilian and dissident groups in hiding in the Phou Bia mountain area of Laos are under attack by ground forces and artillery units of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( SRV ) and Lao Peoples Democratic Republic ( LPDR ) resulting in hundreds of dead and wounded civilians. Over 6,500 Lao Hmong civilians may die in the coming weeks and months as a result of this joint military offensive by Laos and Vietnam that parallels recent high-level LPDR-SRV military and communist party meetings and the announcement of strengthened military cooperation between the two Communist nations.Lao Peoples Army forces ( LPA ) and Vietnam Peoples Army ( VPA; also sometimes known as the PAVN ) ground forces, with significant artillery, mechanized infantry and special forces “hunter-killer” teams., are being deployed to Xieng Khouang Province, Saysambone Closed Military Zone ( also known as Xiasambone Military Zone ), Luang Prabang Province, Vientiane Province and Khammoune Province in the latest joint SRV-LPDR military offensive in March-April, 2009.The rape and disembowelment of Lao Hmong women and children, and other atrocities, are increasingly commonplace among rampaging Lao military and LPDR security forces."
READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE
IMPORTANT LINKS TO THE PLIGHT OF AMERICA'S FRIENDS HERE
http://asiapacific.amnesty.org/aidoc/ai.nsf/Index/ENGASA260042004
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA26/003/2007
http://www.tragicmountains.org/
http://www.betterplace.org/projects/455
Center for Public Policy Analysis
John Brown Photojournalist On LIGHTSTALKERS
My Mondo Library Photographs
My Photoshelter Archive Homepage
GAIA Photojournalism Collective
killed about 35 Hmong a few kilometers from where I was …one man was shot directly in the face and survived. Late in 2007 a Hmong “guerilla” fighter turned in over 150 starving women and children to a village headman about 16 kilometers from the town center of Phonsavan, northeast Laos.
The Hmong are taken to these refuge type detention centers and are malnourished and mistreated according to the last sources from the outside world who actually clandestinely saw one. I have seen the malnourished Hmong in rural Laos about 15 kilometers from Luang Prabang. Normally, a visitor wouldn’t see this since one needs a guide and paperwork signed off on. The Lao government is very particular as to what aspects of their society outsiders can legally see. This latest development could be a mass genocide in the making.
Here is the beginning of the article:
"Lao Hmong civilian and dissident groups in hiding in the Phou Bia mountain area of Laos are under attack by ground forces and artillery units of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( SRV ) and Lao Peoples Democratic Republic ( LPDR ) resulting in hundreds of dead and wounded civilians. Over 6,500 Lao Hmong civilians may die in the coming weeks and months as a result of this joint military offensive by Laos and Vietnam that parallels recent high-level LPDR-SRV military and communist party meetings and the announcement of strengthened military cooperation between the two Communist nations.Lao Peoples Army forces ( LPA ) and Vietnam Peoples Army ( VPA; also sometimes known as the PAVN ) ground forces, with significant artillery, mechanized infantry and special forces “hunter-killer” teams., are being deployed to Xieng Khouang Province, Saysambone Closed Military Zone ( also known as Xiasambone Military Zone ), Luang Prabang Province, Vientiane Province and Khammoune Province in the latest joint SRV-LPDR military offensive in March-April, 2009.The rape and disembowelment of Lao Hmong women and children, and other atrocities, are increasingly commonplace among rampaging Lao military and LPDR security forces."
READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE
IMPORTANT LINKS TO THE PLIGHT OF AMERICA'S FRIENDS HERE
http://asiapacific.amnesty.org/aidoc/ai.nsf/Index/ENGASA260042004
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA26/003/2007
http://www.tragicmountains.org/
http://www.betterplace.org/projects/455
Center for Public Policy Analysis
John Brown Photojournalist On LIGHTSTALKERS
My Mondo Library Photographs
My Photoshelter Archive Homepage
GAIA Photojournalism Collective
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