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In the 1960s and 1970s, many Hmong were secretly recruited by the American CIA to fight against communism during the Vietnam War. After American armed forces pulled out of Vietnam the Pathet Lao , a communist regime, took over in Laos and ordered the prosecution and re-education of all those who had fought against its cause during the war.
The Hmong in Vietnam also receive cultural and political incentives from the government, [102] which led to the Vietnamese Hmong further diverging from the Laotian Hmong, since the latter are strongly anti-Vietnamese due to the Secret War and Communism.
In an October 1995 National Review article, citing the Hmong's contributions to US war efforts during the Vietnam War, Johns described Clinton's support for returning the Thai-based Hmong refugees to Laos as a "betrayal" and urged Congressional Republicans to step up opposition to the repatriation. [13]
During the Vietnam War, the CIA recruited and trained the Hmong to fight a “secret war” against communist forces in the region, the Hmong American Center states.
Mai Na Lee (also Mai Na M. Lee; c. 1971 [a]) is an associate professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is a researcher for the Hmong Studies Consortium.
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Green Hmong woman - wearing a traditional Green Hmong skirt. The Miao/Hmong who live in Laos and Vietnam have their own language and also their own culture. Each group speaks its own dialect and practices its own traditions and culture. Their clothing differs by group. Identifying a Hmong on the street today is not easy. Before, people did so ...
The Hmongs are an ethic group from Southeast Asia who fought alongside the United States during the Vietnam War. When that war was lost, they had no land or nation to call home.