"HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS" History of Hmong Lao-Vietnam War

To Watch Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8YFiEXxi7M © SommerFilms, 2007 (by Rebecca Sommer) All rights reserved. http://www.sommerfilms.org
Brief history (Vietnam War) of the ethnic Hmong Lao people of Laos, narrated by Hmong leader General Vang Pao, and Mr. Vang from the LHRC. In the 75 minute-long awareness-raising documentary "Hunted Like Animals", the refugees who fled from Laos to Thailand explain what the military inside of Laos did to them, while they were running and hiding, half starved, from the attacks by the soldiers ~ over 30 years after the Vietnam War ended. Some footage in "Hunted Like Animals" was filmed by the Hmong-in-hiding themselves- in the mountainous conflict areas of Laos (2002-2006). (Cameras were smuggled in, and tapes out of the conflict area by Fact Finding Commission.)

Thousands of Hmong Lao fled from Laos to Thailand - starting 2004- to escape increasing military attacks inside of Laos, and settled in Thailand's Ban Huay Nam Khao Refugee Camp.
Over 1400 DVD of HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS were disseminated to governments, UN system and NGOs end of 2006 and 2007. Even so diplomats and UN officials has no access to the people-in-hiding inside of Laos, or to the refugees in Thailand's refugee camp - HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS brings the voices of the desperate Hmong Lao directly to them. The refugees want the world to know what they have endured, and speak on behalf of many thousands of Hmong left behind -- who are still trapped inside of remote mountainous jungle areas, chased, attacked, tortured, mutilated, killed, starving -- AT THIS VERY MOMENT !!!!!

Please contact the filmmaker Rebecca Sommer, if you would like to order a DVD - or if you have questions: SommerFilms@gmail.com

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[FugiApples]

They did not do it for the "white" man, but for freedom. The Hmong people feared communist and they had a passion for freedom. The United States promised freedom, but it was nothing more than tricking them to fight for them.

[NightWatchman3346]

UN doesnt do shit they just put pressure on countries to get wat they want

and to THEM this is a MINOR problem

[ChelseaTheBlue01]

why Lao and Cambodian execute their own people?

[mseverybodyknowsu]

thank you for uploading the video

[Nationofhonor]

Classic story of liberalism, my grandfather was one of those Hmong fighters.

Fuck all of you Liberals, my family was almost murdered in cold blood.

[goldseekertime]

@Jetlis1 You may be 100% right about the CIA. Because CIA exists, it gives birth to Al-Qida and other terrorism organizations. Both forms are terrorists in their own right; spreading and causing problems throughout the world.

[RuajXiong]

What I find most interest is that we helped the US but are never included in any books or videos about the war, and the least they could do now is get the rest of the hmong out of Vietnam and into the US, the US is no better then the nazis

[Jetlis1]

CIA are pussy, cause they run like bitch

[kei0kusanagi]

Hmong people were left behind to fight this CRAP WAR when the Americans left. Still fighting today too.

[kei0kusanagi]

@panggee1 I am Hmong. I understand how you feel and what you said at the end is true but what you said first about us Hmong people being ok, if we didn't help americans in the first place, I'm not so sure about that. If you say that then you are pretty much putting a blame on General Vang Pao too, it was a choice that we Hmong people made to fight, because we we're told we would be granted freedom and move to the US. Doing nothing and standing on the side wont help, death will still come.

[panggee1]

@FugiApples You idoit. You uneducated being you. You know we would have been fine if we didn't get ask for help from you americans. We were asked that why we are in the place we are now. My grandparent probably saved your grandparents or veterans. Without our people you probably wouldnt' even been born.

[rEdStArRiSiNg06]

@logicdictates4me Thank your for your humility...it's sad how America has turn their back on one of their greatest ally in Southeast Asian. This is the reason why so many people in the world hate and are reluctant to help America present & future. Although I know most Americans are humble & generous...if only they known the sacrifices the Hmong people has done to saved American lives in Laos, they would appreciate the Hmong people more. RIP comrades!!!