Expelled Hmong neglected for three decades focus 12/29/2009

Expelled Hmong neglected for three decades focus 12/29/2009 BANGKOK — The deportation on Monday of more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong from Thailand to Laos highlights the suffering of a group that has been neglected by the international community for more than three decades. Thousands of Hmong, a highland people, sided with the United States in the 1960s and 1970s during the Vietnam War and formed a CIA-funded “secret army” when the conflict spread to Laos..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary20091229com3.html

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