LOS ANGELES, California, United States (AFP) - Former Laotian Hmong general Vang Pao, who died in the United States Thursday, aged 81, was a controversial figure who led a CIA-backed "secret army'' in the Vietnam war, and never abandoned the dream of leading his people home from exile...
Disliking persecution, some settled in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. They detest being ordered or bullied, do not like to lose, are fighters who would rather die than surrender. Though they never possessed a country of their own, they have marched through the pages of history as free men ...
What follows is my own history of Hmong involvement in the Vietnam War and my reflections on Hmong life in the United States after the war. Here I am continuing a lifelong project of delving into the dynamic interrelationship of identity, history, and culture among people who have over ...
T his chapter explores the historical contradictions in Hmong ethnic divisions, beginning with French colonialism, through their involvement with U.S. covert operations in Laos during the American war in Vietnam and their subsequent forced migration to the United States. It examines how their ...
In Viet Nam and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Degar (Montagnard) and Hmong peoples continue to suffer repression as a consequence of their involvement in cold-war conflicts more than three decades ago, and serious violations of their rights have been documented. 在越南和老挝人民民...
The Hmong in the U.S. came mainly from Laos as refugees after the Vietnam War. Their peaceful agrarian lives in the hills of northern Laos changed as roughly 40,000 of them were recruited by the CIA to fight in the secret wars in Laos during our Vietnam War. They fought bravely and...
They were recruited to fight the secret war in Laos and were admitted to resettle in the United States for their loyalty to the American government during the Vietnam War.;The purpose of this qualitative ethnographic study was to examine the family and community influences on the attitudes to ...