"(Sacramento) - Hundreds of members of the Hmong community rallied
yesterday afternoon on the steps of the State Capitol to cheer the
passage of Assembly Joint Resolutions 36 and 37 by Assemblymembers
Dave Jones (D-Sacramento) and Juan Arambula (D-Fresno) by the Assembly
Judiciary Committee. AJR 36 calls on the United States government to
use all diplomatic means to assist the Hmong people who are suffering
in Laos and Thailand. As we learn in this Assembly Web Report, decades
after the Hmong people worked with the United States military in the
Vietnam War the communist government of Laos continues to torture and
exterminate Hmong people and thousand more are refugees in Thailand
with little or no support from the Thai government. AJR 37 calls on
the State Legislature to commend the federal government for enacting a
law that no longer classifies Hmong allies as “terrorists” that had
inadvertently resulted from their support of the U.S. military during
the Vietnam War."