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The Hmong are an Asian ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Hmong are also one of the sub-groups of the Miao ethnicity (苗族) in southern China. Hmong groups began a gradual southward migration in the 18th century due to political unrest and to find more arable land.
A number of Hmong people fought against the communist-nationalist Pathet Lao during the Laotian Civil War. Hmong people were singled out for retribution when the Pathet Lao took over the Laotian government in 1975, and tens of thousands fled to Thailand seeking political asylum. Thousands of these refugees have resettled in Western countries since the late 1970s, mostly the United States but also Australia, France, French Guiana, and Canada. Others have been returned to Laos under United Nations-sponsored repatriation programs. Around 8,000 Hmong refugees remain in Thailand.
In the early 1960s, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Special Activities Division began to recruit, train and lead the indigenous Hmong people in Laos to join fighting the Vietnam War, named as a Special Guerrilla Unit led by General Vang Pao. About 60% of the Hmong men in Laos were supported by the CIA to join fighting for the "Secret War" in Laos. The CIA used the Special Guerrilla Unit as the counter attack unit to block the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the main military supply route from the north to the south. Hmong soldiers put their lives at risk in the front line, fighting for the United States to block the supply line and to rescue downed American pilots. From 1967--1971, 3,772 Hmong soldiers were killed in the front line, 5,426 were injured and disabled. Between 1962--1975, about 12,000 Hmong died fighting against Pathet Lao.
General Vang Pao led the Region II (MR2) defense against NVA incursion from his headquarters in Long Cheng, also known as Lima Site 20 Alternate (LS 20A). At the height of its activity, Long Cheng became the second largest city in Laos. Long Cheng was a micro-nation operational site with its own bank, airport, school system, officials, and many other facilities and services in addition to its military units. Before the end of the Secret War, Long Cheng would fall in and out of General Vang Pao's control.
The Secret War began around the time that the U.S. became officially involved in the Vietnam War. Following the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975, the Lao kingdom was overthrown by the communists and the Hmong people became targets of retaliation and persecution. While some Hmong people returned to their villages and attempted to resume life under the new regime, thousands more made the trek to and across the Mekong River into Thailand, often under attack. This marked the beginning of a mass exodus of Hmong people from Laos. Those who did make it to Thailand generally were held in squalid United Nations refugee camps. Nearly 20 years later, in the 1990s, a major international debate ensued over whether the Hmong should be returned to Laos, where opponents of their return argued they were being subjected to persecution, or afforded the right to emigrate to the U.S. and other Western nations.
Small groups of Hmong people, many of them second or third generation descendants of former CIA soldiers, remain internally displaced in remote parts of Laos, in fear of government reprisals. Faced with continuing military operations against them by the government and a scarcity of food, some groups have begun coming out of hiding, while others have sought asylum in Thailand and other countries.
Throughout the Vietnam War, and for two decades following it, the U.S. government stated that there was no "Secret War" in Laos and that the U.S. was not engaged in air or ground combat operations in Laos. In the late 1990s, however, several U.S. conservatives, alleging that the Clinton administration was using the denial of this covert war to justify a repatriation of Thailand-based Hmong war veterans to Laos, urged the U.S. government to acknowledge the existence of the Secret War and to honor the Hmong and U.S. veterans from the war. On May 15, 1997, in a total reversal of U.S. policy, the U.S. government acknowledged that it had supported a prolonged air and ground campaign against the NVA and VietCong. It simultaneously dedicated the Laos Memorial on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery in honor of the Hmong and other combat veterans from the Secret War.
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CIA Secret War in Laos 1961-1975by Khomdy11,970 views
There was no neautrality in the Vietnam War. Everyone knows MACV-SOG was sending troops into Laos and Cambodia to cut the Ho Chi Mihn Trail for the entire war, everyone knows of Operations Menu and Freedom Deal, the Invasion of the Parrot's Beak, the NVA/VC using Laos and Cambodia as staging bases for the Ho Chi Mihn Trail, North Vietnam arming Pathet Lao and Khimer Rogue troops, and the failed US-ARVN Invasion of Laos, Operation: Lam Son 719.
snakes3425 1 week ago
I'd like to thank these warriors if no government will!
DeviantFormula 1 month ago
@ZouOR Well the same to you too, cool aid drinker.
Tanakun09 2 months ago
@ZouOR No I'm saying that if a person walks in and see's bodies of women children,(be thay be Chao-fa, Hmong,Lao, etc), he or she would be shoved in a car and never see or be able to tale the truth.
Tanakun09 2 months ago
@ZouOR Oh another thing. I do Care it's just that it's the world that don't give a dam.
Tanakun09 2 months ago
@ZouOR So are you suggesting that the entire eastern block go after one small band of gurrellas. The Asain community can give a care unless they are fighting one another over a peace of dirt.
Tanakun09 2 months ago
@ZouOR Yeah it's because no proof ever makes it out alive. Think of that. END
Tanakun09 2 months ago
@ZouOR Oh me be naive, oh how I laugh at that.
Democratic Ideas, wow, now if only one of them can get in office.
Tanakun09 2 months ago
@ZouOR So what if Vang Pao and his cult leader is behind this. Does it look like I'm gonna wet my self after watching this shit. I can careless if these are propaganda or not. China, Russia, Thai, And Vietnam can go to hell for all I care.
Tanakun09 2 months ago
@ZouOR Well you just hit the jackpot. Coming from some one who's lives in Lao's and has yet to go out and protest against your own government for reforms only to be shoot at by the military. And be hounded by helicopeter with machine gun firing from above.
Say what you will, I don't judge people by skin or creed. Nor do I expect all to people to be innocent till proven guilty. And as Far as U.S. goverment goes they Can KISS MY Hmong ASS. For they are worthless.
Tanakun09 2 months ago