> DJK,
>
> Great propaganda on America's indepence day.   The only these nations
> agree is to allow third party/ UN personnel monitor those refugees
> back in Laos.  After all, it is all Lao and thai's dirty politics.
> Half of those return will be death within a year with LPDR food
> poissoning.
>
> On Jul 5, 12:07 am, DKJ gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thailand to repatriate 215 ethnic Hmong to Laos

>

>> BANGKOK, July 4 (TNA) - Thailand will repatriate 215 ethnic Hmong
>> minority to Laos next Thursday across the Thai-Lao Friendship bridge
>> border crossing across the Mekong River in the northeastern province
>> of Nongkhai, according to Lt-Gen. Nipat Thonglek, Chief of the Royal
>> Thai Army's Border Affairs Department.

>

>> Gen. Nipat noted that some foreign diplomatic missions expressed
>> satisfaction that there were no human rights violations taking place
>> and that the members of the ethnic minority group were not being
>> deported against their will.

>

>> He said nine envoys from six countries -- Australia, Britain, Canada,
>> France, the Netherlands, and the United States, as well as a
>> representative from the European Union -- were satisfied with the
>> treatment of the 215 Hmong who would be sent back to Laos next week,
>> after the diplomats visited them Wednesday at the 28th Cavalry
>> Battalion in the northern province of Phetchabun.http://www.flickr.com/photos/troubles

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>> According to Gen. Nipat, the trip was organised after Thailand
>> successfully repatriated 837 Hmong voluntarily back to Laos on June 22http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmongreturnee837andsome foreign
>> diplomatic missions in Thailand and international organisations called
>> for more information about the repatriation.

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>> He said that the foreign countries worried that the Hmong ethnic were
>> forced to return to the Lao PDR and the families were separated
>> against their will.

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>> After the visit, the foreign mission representatives were satisfied
>> with Thailand's treatment of the Hmong, and that the facilities
>> provided were acceptable, he said.

>

>> The latest repatriation came after ethnic Hmong living at a temporary
>> camp in Phetchabun burned their shelters to protest the Thai
>> government plan to repatriate them to Laos.

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>> The protested was aimed to draw the attention of the United Nations
>> and the world community.

>

>> Many ethnic Hmong soldiers fought alongside the US forces during the
>> Vietnam War. After the war in Laos ended in 1975, many fled to the
>> jungles fearing the communist authorities would hunt them down for
>> having worked with the Americans, and being potentially disloyal to
>> the new Pathet Lao communist government.

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>> Thailand, however, claims that many of the Hmong had violated Thai law
>> by entering the country illegally. (TNA)

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