LOYALTY TO YOUR ex=SLAVES WHILE A PRAISEWORTHY CAUSE BUT NOT
If such loyalty is to cause your ex-slaves more hardship than if they
were to be left alone.
Mr Kovan was interested, which is to his credit, in the fate of the
Hmongs who had served him during the Nam War against present real or
imaginary persecution by the Vietkong who supposedly punished them for
past collaboration with the Kovans.
What I knew of the Hmong was from superficially reading US or Western
sources which gave me a contradictory picture of the Hmong. Where do
they come from ? What is there Geographical distribution and why did
they collaborate with the US.
A short trip to Ha Giang, the Northern most province of Vietnam next
to China last Christmas encouraged me to do an in depth investigation.
Ha Giang was the road by which the Hmong arrived to VN from China in
last 300 years in 3 waves of immigration.
What is new to me was before 1954, there were no Hmongs in what is
known later as South Vietnam. At the end of the War against the
French, Their main distribution was highest in China (about 70%%) then
North Vietnam (20-25%%) Laos (5-10%% ) ,Thailand about 1%% and South
Vietnam = 0%%. The Hmong in North Vietnam lived in the provinces of ...

Dai:

Your post regarding Hmong is very imformative and impressive. Your
source which stated that 70%% of Hmong in the US are on welfare is
little bit too high. It might be true back in the 70's and 80's but
not at the presence. Your sources may be a little outdated. Anyhow,
keep up the good works and keep us at SCH posted.

Nnk

While I have been up to Kontum, Pleiku and BMT a few times the past
two years, unfortunately I can not add much to the discussion.

I suspect the truth lies somewhere in between the article posted by
Dai Uy and El Chino's comments.

I also think that some people on the (USA) east coast are stirring the
pot a bit.

Doug Reese

On Feb 24, 11:35 pm, Elchinoboatconscie...@gmail.com wrote:

Your information about Hmong in Vietnam coincided with what we've
learned about the Hmong from Laos.

1. Chinese Archives dated Hmong live in along the Yellow River and
Central China 3000 B.C.
2. Hmong are pushed to the southwest region by the Han Chinese and
records found Hmong existed in Yunnan Province...