ລາວພວນ ລາວຮັກຊາດ
2006-01-28 19:59:35 UTC
Don't you dare to forget The Hmong were allied with
the United States during the Vietnam War and formed
a Central Intelligence Agency-backed secret army when
the war spilled into Laos.
Ya Leoum Wah Hao Pen Nuck Soob Deur....he he he..
Laphua
BANGKOK (AFP) - Twenty-six Hmong children who were expelled from
Thailand last month have been found in neighboring Laos, and the two
governments are discussing ways to reunite them with their parents
living in a refugee camp, the United Nations said.
"The children are in Laos," said Bhairaja Panday, deputy regional
representative for Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam at the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). "The issue (over their reunion) has
been raised by both governments," Panday said.
The children, boys and girls aged between 14 and 20, had been living in
a refugee camp for the Hmong ethnic minority in northeastern Thailand's
Phetchabun province bordering Laos.
But last month Thailand expelled them as well as one adult, in secret
and for unknown reasons. Several foreign sources said they were
arrested under the pretext that they had strayed outside the camp
precincts.
Panday declined to say how the Hmong children ended up in Laos but said
Thailand and Laos were negotiating ways to help them reunite with their
parents at the refugee camp.
"We have been urging both governments to find a way out of this. We
would like that to happen as soon as possible because they are
children," he said.
"We have heard that some kids need some kind of medical attention. We
just have heard that some of them are maybe malnourished."
The Hmong were allied with the United States during the Vietnam War and
formed a Central Intelligence Agency-backed secret army when the
war spilled into Laos. When the US withdrew in 1975, many Hmong feared
persecution and fled to Thailand, where they have lived in refugee
camps
the United States during the Vietnam War and formed
a Central Intelligence Agency-backed secret army when
the war spilled into Laos.
Ya Leoum Wah Hao Pen Nuck Soob Deur....he he he..
Laphua
BANGKOK (AFP) - Twenty-six Hmong children who were expelled from
Thailand last month have been found in neighboring Laos, and the two
governments are discussing ways to reunite them with their parents
living in a refugee camp, the United Nations said.
"The children are in Laos," said Bhairaja Panday, deputy regional
representative for Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam at the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). "The issue (over their reunion) has
been raised by both governments," Panday said.
The children, boys and girls aged between 14 and 20, had been living in
a refugee camp for the Hmong ethnic minority in northeastern Thailand's
Phetchabun province bordering Laos.
But last month Thailand expelled them as well as one adult, in secret
and for unknown reasons. Several foreign sources said they were
arrested under the pretext that they had strayed outside the camp
precincts.
Panday declined to say how the Hmong children ended up in Laos but said
Thailand and Laos were negotiating ways to help them reunite with their
parents at the refugee camp.
"We have been urging both governments to find a way out of this. We
would like that to happen as soon as possible because they are
children," he said.
"We have heard that some kids need some kind of medical attention. We
just have heard that some of them are maybe malnourished."
The Hmong were allied with the United States during the Vietnam War and
formed a Central Intelligence Agency-backed secret army when the
war spilled into Laos. When the US withdrew in 1975, many Hmong feared
persecution and fled to Thailand, where they have lived in refugee
camps