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WASHINGTON—U.S.-based Lao Hmong refugees have voiced deep concern after Thailand forced thousands of Hmong asylum-seekers back to Laos, where rights groups and international observers fear they may face harsh treatment. “We are still in shock ...  
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St. Paul, Minn. — Members of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities are trying to keep pressure on the U.S. government to help recently repatriated Hmong in Laos. More than 300 members of the Hmong community turned out for a town hall-style meeting ...  
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ST. PAUL -- A Minnesota-based Hmong group is calling on the Lao government to allow international monitors into a temporary camp housing thousands of new Hmong refugees. Late last month, Thailand forcibly deported about 4,500 Hmong asylum seekers to ...  
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(ABC 6 NEWS) -- Those in the Hmong community are being forced back into their home country of Laos and many fear for their lives. Late last month, Thailand officials deported about 4,500 Hmong asylum seekers back to Laos. Now the Southeast Asia ...  
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Vang Pao, who led a Hmong guerilla force funded by the CIA, has dropped plans to return to Laos because officials said he would be executed as a war criminal. In a December speech at the Big Fresno Fairgrounds in California, Vang said it was time for ...  
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Laos: Hmong Refugees Recently Forced From Thailand Back To Laos. U.S.-based, non-governmental human rights, refugee and policy organizations are urging Laos to grant emergency access to over 4,000 Hmong refugees recently forced from Thailand back to ...  
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Unless Laos invites observers in to confirm or refute the claims that former resistance leaders have been imprisoned and tortured, most Hmong will believe that the US and Thailand have once again abandoned their former allies, with devastating results.  
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BANGKOK — The recent deportation of Hmong asylum seekers to Laos has shown that Thailand’s powerful military remains the dominant player in shaping the relationship between this Southeast Asian kingdom and its immediate neighbors. Thai analysts ...  
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PHETCHABUN, Thailand (AP) — Thai troops have completed the repatriation of more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong to Laos amid criticism by the United States and other nations fearing that the returnees could face persecution by the Laotian government. The ...  
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... 4,500 ethnic Hmong to Laos ... MaoKao Thao said he fought with the Americans in 1962, then fled to Thailand with one of his brothers, Xao Thao. The two left Thailand for the U.S. in 1989, eventually settling in St. Paul. Chakhee Thao stayed ...  
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In the affidavit, authorities say Chong Vang attended a Feb. 7 lunch meeting at the Amarin Thai Restaurant in Sacramento. Thai troops deport 4,000 Hmong to Laos Thai troops deport 4,000 Hmong to Laos Thai troops packed more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong ...  
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During the last week or so, Thailand, a fast American friend from which one expects better, has forcibly repatriated to communist Laos some 4,000 Hmong refugees, with whom that country's regime has scores to settle. Not only are the Hmong despised as ...  
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BANGKOK (AP) - Laos denied the U.N. immediate access to 4,500 ethnic Hmong who were forcibly repatriated from Thailand, saying Wednesday it would "complicate" matters but that international observers could visit later. Thailand deported the Hmong on ...  
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National Hmong leaders in Fresno are asking President Barack Obama to intervene on behalf of 4,500 Hmong who were forcibly repatriated from Thailand to Laos this week. In a letter to Obama, the Fresno-based Lao Veterans of America Institute, which ...  
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* UNHCR urges Thailand to reveal assurances it had from Laos GENEVA, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday it had asked Laos to grant it access to more than 4,000 Hmong asylum-seekers deported from camps in Thailand. In a ...  
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