War

http://www.asianewsnet.net/columnist.php?aid=10637

On June 4, about 200 law-enforcement agents in California launched what initially appeared to be a spectacular raid, arresting nine in an alleged plot to overthrow the government of Laos. Eight of those arrested originally came from Laos...

http://www.hmongtoday.com/index.asp

The Nation's Hmong Newspaper:  Hmong Today

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OdwfMStlmXI

 This a beautiful music video that depicts perfectly the struggle and deaths that are going on in southeast Asia.  Below are the lyrics in english.  Please take the time to watch this.  I hope this will touch your heart as it did mine and please the least you can do is to pass this on to others so that they will know.  Hopefully, this will move you do something or start a dialogue as it did me.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bnvTjs3-Ytc

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vQCXMtjbTBU

The Hmong have been persecuted since 1975 by the communist Lao PDR government and Vietnamese troops for their alliance with the United States in the U.S. Secret War during the Vietnam War. They were forced to live in the deep-remote jungles of Laos and starve. They have no other choices but to surrender.

http://www.rebeccasommer.org/

 HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS is an eye-opening documentary about an ongoing, but unknown, genocide — against the Hmong people in the jungles of Laos. Coerced into joining the CIA’s anti-communist efforts during the Viet Nam war, the Hmong in hiding are still mercilessly hunted, attacked, raped, tortured and killed by the military. Since 2004, the military crackdown on the Hmong has intensified and those who can escape seek refuge in Thailand.