refugee camp in northeastern Thailand and sent them back to Laos, a country they had fled from four years before. Four hundred other Hmong suffered the same fate.Marc KaufmanKnightRidder Newspapers
Hmong vets, who fought in secret, are honored; In the 1960s and '70s, Hmong soldiers aided the United States in its covert war in Laos. On Wednesday, Hmong veterans converged on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington to make sure they are not forgotten.(NEWS)...
People All Over The World Have Died From SUNDS At the time of the 1977 SUNDS outbreak, there were only about 35,000 Hmong people living in America, making the amount of people affected by the syndrome seem monumental. However, similarly mysterious deaths had been common in sever...
And the children are surrounded with Chinese characters on everything from the name cards on their desks to the drawing of a fish on a wall. The same phenomenon is being seen in other parts of the country. Children from Hmong and Somali immigrant communities are also joining Chinese-language...
It’s also been roughly 37 years since a significant population of refugees was resettled here within a short time frame. Between 1979 and 1980, roughly 366 Hmong refugees were resettled in Missoula, a more liberal community than much of the rest of the state, after fleeing repression from ...
aHis parents are from one of the eighteen Hmong clans from Laos that have settled in the united states. They believe that the surgery will arouse angry spirits who have punished the boy for a wrong deed committed by an ancestor. 他的父母是从在美国定居十八个Hmong氏族的之一从老挝。 他们相信...
Being an anti-racist is anACTIVE VERB. Being an anti-racist is not synonymous with being a white savior. So save your “savior moments” for later. There will be plenty opportunities for that in the future. India announced its lockdown for its 1.3 billion people on Tuesday evening, March...
A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of the Military CIA by Joshua Kurlantzick (review) indigenous army from people not connected with the Hmong; and Bill Sullivan, the diplomat who ran the secret war in its more expansive phase beginning ......
Prominent graduates from Carleton College include celebrities, politicians, business people, athletes and more. This list of distinguished Carleton College alumni is loosely ordered by relevance, so the most recognizable celebrities who attended Carleton College are at the top of the list. This ...
The burden of viral hepatitis in China is particularly high. One-third of all people living with HBV and nearly 10% of all people living with HCV are in China [9]. Similar to many LMICs, China has low rates of HBV and HCV testing, including among MSM. A recent nationwide survey found...