The Lost Tribe - 10 Mar 08 - Pt. 1

The Hmong hill tribe in Laos was recruited in 1961 by the CIA, to fight a "Secret War" against the Communists of North Vietnam. Their job was to try to block the Vietcong's supply route.

Known as the "Ho Chi Minh trail", it ran through Laos, along the border with Vietnam. More than 40,000 Hmong were killed in the fighting that followed.

When the US fled Saigon in 1975, Communists also seized control of Laos.

The Hmong, abandoned by the US, allegedly became the target of retaliation and persecution.

This marked the beginning of the mass exodus of Hmong refugees into Thailand, which eventually swelled to more than 300,000.

Known as the "Ho Chi Minh trail", it ran through Laos, along the border with Vietnam. More than 40,000 Hmong were killed in the fighting that followed.

When the US fled Saigon in 1975, Communists also seized control of Laos.

The Hmong, abandoned by the US, allegedly became the target of retaliation and persecution.

This marked the beginning of the mass exodus of Hmong refugees into Thailand, which eventually swelled to more than 300,000.

Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley trekked through the jungles of northern Laos to find this dwindling tribe, the first television journalist to do so.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Lost
• Tribe
• Secret
• Army
• CIA
• jazeera
• Hmong
• Laos
• Tony
• Birtley

[MrSeXy907]

FUCK LAOS PEOPLE STOP MUDER  HMONG BITCH

[shuakuya]

bear arm and ask for help? no body can help you. human right only be able to help unarmed man, women and innocence children. Do you Fact finding people know that American going after terrorism all over the world? it try to be ally with LPDR. are you stupid like those in the jungle? Tell them to surrender to the authority and be a good citizen. that is the only way to survive. these people will be prosecuted for what they did. but think about those innocence children.

[NeoTranshuman]

@thaosta92 Yeah, god will protect them, so they should stop asking for help from the United States..

[thaosta92]

man watching this video make me sad because watch ours hmong people getting hunt down but i knoe god with be there by the side to protect them and watch over them...if i was have a choice to go to war i will save our hmong people from the jungle and bring they all back to thailand and america...

[yihanvue1]

Everything's will be ok.....! **God is watching.** God Blesss all of you!!!..

[Sandra58699]

used and left behind, what this tell you ?

[ZouOR]

@Sundincubus Also I'm here to debate and the Hmong are the source of the core problems for the last 4 decade and it is still is. Also don't expect we live in a perfect world or heaven because we all live in both world in between and for you to curse me to hell, then you're sin must be hell too. Don't preach hell if you don't really understand what it is because no one is innocent on this Earth. A Hmong Nazi like you only can see a Mono- visionary and a opinionated hardheaded you are.