Still a Secret War

Scattered groups of ethnic Hmong have hidden in the remote mountains of Laos for more than 30 years, afraid to come out. Many have not seen the modern world, and exist with little food, scavenging in the jungle. The CIA trained and funded many Hmong hill tribes in Laos from 1961 to 1973 to fight communism. When America withdrew from the conflict most Hmong were left alone to face the might of the invading North Vietnamese Army. The Royal Lao Government fell to the communists and many Hmong became outcasts in the country they fought to defend.
This video was produced and edited by Paul Kwiatkowski, all photos are by Roger Arnold.

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[ticktack25]

The fucken Secret war is still going on.... Anybody even give a shit... Fucken Africa, Europe, any country that gets invaded USA gives a shit, but when the fucken people you recruit to help you to war are invaded today.... I mean right now they are being slaugther...No one talks about it... Fuck You.

[saiojin]

i really hate how American abandon our people. its also sad to see my dad looking at these video everyday wondering if his brother is still ok. i remember that he told me that most of this brothers and sisters killed in laos.

[magma3000]

man

watching this video is the first hmong documentary that made me cried.

I know, my parents told me not to cry because hmong grown boys should not cry

[sr20detdrifting]

i agreed with ticktack25 FUCK YOU

[sr20detdrifting]

i agreed with ticktack25, fuck you for leaving us HMONG people behind

[kengus]

damn the U.S FOR LEAVING MY HMONG PEOPLE BEHIND.............

[wutanclane]

america should have help our hmong people but instead they ran away and left our people to be hunted like animals

[129815]

run away from the Middle East because the day that they'll have to pull out of Iraq is in 2013, they're still trying to drive out the Taliban from Afghanistan, and i hope the Americans find a way to be good and find peace for the Hmong that are still hiding in the jungles and because America is suffering economic problems, i don't know if things are going to end

[129815]

most might not know anything about but at least some people are spreading the word around, so now Americans should be aware of their historical mistakes, hopefully they don't

[129815]

that might be it, but it was war and we didn't know what would happen they just started to recruit the men then the little boys... American should be shamed of that and what they're doing now, but there is always a way to be good again and its for them to correct their mistakes and help ease the Hmong's fear of being prosecuted

[SoulHeadProduction]

Pej Hmoob..We Need Some Help Over Here(I Dont Live In Laos or Thailand and Im Not HTT but) At Least Help Us..Freaking Nala Ppl Are Treating Us Like We Are Garbage...Which We Arent I Mean There Should Be A Hmoob Ip Man or Hmoob Bruce Lee or SomeThing Like That...Nala Ppl Are Just Lucky That We Hide In The Forest and Jungles..If We Were Prepared..We Would Kick Them Out Of Laos But...We Still Dont Have A Land And Theres Really No Point Of Having A Land For Pej Hmoob Bcuz More War Will Start

[Mouajimmy]

wow.. very sad. God bless them.