:( Hello this is the question on this thread,
Have the USA done anything about the killings in Laos?
Hmong, Laos, Mein, and other ethic groups are being hunted down like
animals in Laos. Yes the USA had forgotten about who they USED in the
Vietnam War. Like the secret war which only the CIA knows about it but not the president at that time.
Not even the UN is doing anything about it, now i want the truth from everyone who decide to post in this thread.......
becasue i'm one of them........
ethic background: Hmong
Salvondia
19-03-2005, 06:43
Taken from a textbook on Vietnam
"By 1961 the CIA had raised and armed a force of over 10,00 Hmong tribesmen in an effort to even the odds. As the war progressed the Hmong irregular forces, under the command of General Vang Paio, became the most effective fighting force allied to the United States, facing down communist attacks on the strategic Plain of Jars. The daring Hmong tribesmen, supplied by the CIA, operated Air America and augmented by Thai troops, also performed several other duties including surveillance of the Ho chi Minh Trail and secret forays into North Nietnam itself. Aided by devastating American air strikes the Hmong and Royal Lao forces fought the communists to a standstill and the war in Laos proceeded as a bloody stalemate.
By 1970, though, the momentum had shifted in teh "Secret War" in Laos. The Hmong, word down by years of bloody fighting, had lost 10,000 dead while 100,000 were forced to flee their shattered villages as refugees. Though it had fought bravely, and had even resorted to drafting children, Vang Pao's Hmong army had been defeated in a war of attrition. Though a peace treaty was signed in 1971 the North Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao kept the pressure on their hated Hmong enemies and engaged in brutal ethnic cleansing. Abandoned by their powerful allies some Hmong fought on, while others fled the country in an attempt to reach the United States. Only after the final fall of Laos in 1975 did life for the Hmong return to a semblance of normality. The Hmong culture, and much of Laotian society as a whole, had nearly ceased to exist - having been caught between the warring sides in the Vietnam war."
Basically you got screwed over and by this point most of the world has simply forgotten the Hmong were involved. Though the Hmong will likely always be noted with distinction in American text books on the Vietnam War, not that any of the Hmong actually care about that.
I don't really want to sit down and transcribe more of the text book, but the Hmong were not simply "used." Nor were most of the other groups. They genuinely opposed the North Vietnamese and sided with the United States due to self-interest.