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Hmong people, especially those who had participated in the military conflict were singled out for retribution. Of the Hmong who remained in Laos, over 30,000 were sent to re-education camps as political prisoners where they served indeterminate, sometimes life, sentences. Enduring hard physical labor and difficult conditions, many people died. [13]
The Hmong people were subjected to persecution and genocide by the Qing dynasty government. Arthur A. Hansen wrote: "In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while the Hmong lived in south-western China, their Manchu overlords had labeled them 'Miao' and targeted them for genocide." [40] [better source needed]
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“If history isn’t documented, then it’s forgotten,” a librarian involved in creating Fresno State’s Hmong history repository said. Hmong culture in 1960s war-torn Laos documented by ...
CIA operative Dick Holm and a Hmong fighter in mid-1962. The CIA-organized group of Hmong tribesmen fighting in the Vietnam War is known as the "Secret Army", and their participation was called the Secret War, where the Secret War is meant to denote the Laotian Civil War (1960–1975) and the Laotian front of the Vietnam War.
For decades, the history of Southeast Asian refugees have been sidelined in U.S. history. California's first state-legislated Southeast Asian model curriculum aims to change that.
The government of Laos has been accused of committing genocide against that country's Hmong ethnic minority. [19] Some Hmong groups fought as CIA-backed units on the Royalist side in the Laos civil war. [20] After the Pathet Lao took over the country in 1975, the conflict continued in isolated pockets.
The government of Laos has been accused of committing genocide against the Hmong in collaboration with the Vietnamese army, [5] [6] with up to 100,000 killed out of a population of 400,000. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] From 1975 to 1996, the United States resettled some 250,000 Lao refugees from Thailand, including 130,000 Hmong.