Where is Home?

I am commonly mistaken as being Chinese, but in fact my ancestors are orginally from China. Not many of you may know this, but we are refer to as the Hmong people. (Mong) A culture that is completely different from the Chinese. As you can see my profile name is May and I threw in my nationality Hmong with it. I was born in California, thank heavens, but I try to keep an update on the remaining Hmongs who are still at risk of persecution and death back in our country Laos.

Our people have gone from land to land trying to live a peaceful life. Unfortunately the Hmong were driven out of China to the country of Laos. And once again the Hmong were driven out of Laos due to the secret war for Laos in 1942-1992. They ended up in the Thailands refugee camp and suffered even more. Several years later, the refugee camps has refuse to let any outside inspection to come and investigate. The Hmong refugees faced persecution and even death in Laos and risked their lives to flee to Thailand, with many dying along the way. However, Thailand appears to be turning on remaining Hmong refugees in that nation, preparing to force them back to Laos unless the U.S. takes action to rescue them. Many refugees missed a deadline to register for immigration to the U.S. and now screwed. In Laos, the Communist government may continue its campaign of vengeance against the Hmong soldiers who supported the U.S.

So the best option left is to be rescued to another foreign country. Think how difficult that must be to adjust to?! I know it wasn't easy on my relatives that had recently arrived to the U.S. They would prefer to live as a hermit life and not rely on having to deal with so much bills and tax problems.

The Secret War

The Hmong people were allies with the U.S. who had urged them to go to war against our enemies, and even trained them, depended on their bravery, and then broke the promises to them as they pulled out without doing anything to protect them against the terrible revenge afterwards. The Hmong had sacrificed thousands of their lives in deadly missions to save thousands of American lives. The secret war remains a secret to some American veterans who have no idea that the Hmong people had supported them.

Later there has been numerous reports of chemical and biological warfare that was used against the Hmong. The State Department ignored it for years and refused to even list Laos in reports monitoring human rights problems of other nations. The press and the State Department ignored the victims, their chemical wounds, their chemical samples and the chemical analyses of deadly man-made toxins and biological agents. Instead they said that it was just a mere bee pollen that was causing yellow rain killing thousands of Hmong. (I saw the horrible injuries of this on youtube.com and it's too much to be posted on this hub!)

After all that the Hmong people went through fighting in Laos and risking their lives to escape, they ended up in terrible conditions in the refugee camps of Thailand, void of all rights. As it became clear that the U.S. was unconcerned about the Hmong, camps became closed to outsiders and the Hmong were subjected to gross forms of abuse by Thai guards. Some Hmongs have managed to come to the U.S, seeking not a free ride, but life.

Update

I have heard more news coming from the refugee camp where 4,700 Hmong refugees remains. They are appealing to the U.S to stop the Thai goverment's forced repatriation policy against them. They refused to returned to Laos because the Laos communist government may still posed a threat against them. It was later reported that 97 Hmong families were thrown in to the trucks, tied up, beaten, and the use of electric tazer guns and tear gas was necessary to make them returned. The Lao goverment has still continue to hunt the Hmong people and possibly some other Laotians down like animals up to this day.

I heard that Hilary Clinton had expressed her concerned with the Hmong people. More investigation still continues and negotiation with the Thai goverment leaders are still working on a plan or something?!