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Subject: The Perrin/Blenkinsop trip to the Killing Fields
From: "Victor N. Xiong" <xiongvn@milwaukee.k12.wi.us> Add
Date: Fri, May 2, 2003 12:42 pm
To: neeg@neeg.org
Priority: Normal

Please post. Thank you much.

TO: Mr. Perrin and Blenkinsop of Asian TIME Magazine

Re: May 1, 2003 News releases

This is to thank the two of you for your devotions and efforts to
travel to the killing fields of Laos. When I see both of you standing
in the crowd or being surrounded by my fellow Hmong patriots
somewhere in central Laos, I am pleased, thankful, and emotional all
together. I used to fighting like them from December 15, 1975 to
April 8, 1978, and I know the hardship of defending defenseless
women, children and the elderly. When I look at the pictures, it is
hard for me to believe that they can stand the communist aggressions
until today, and it is so difficult for me to hold my tears when so
many men in the crowd burst out of tears. I am very proud to be a
Hmong and even prouder to see members of my race stand so firm
against a killer when there is no place for them to run.

The sad part is that nobody knows when the mentioned people will be
rescued; nobody knows if any government on planet earth will show
interests and be sympathetic to step in to solve this 30 years old
problem. John Everingham, an Australian journalist, reported chemical
attacks in 1977. Le Monde, a French News Paper, reported mass
killings, 7,000 Hmong, in 1977. After the two reports, the media is
silent for the past three decades. I hope this time the world will
turn its attention to this human extermination in modern time by a
government that calls itself, the Lao People Democratic Republic
(LPDR).

Gentlemen, even if the world continues to be silent despite your
sacrifice and reports, I thank you both so much for the kind of work
the two of you have done. You two are real people, and only real
people care about others or those who are oppressed, suffering, and
dying. Only real people put their lives in jeopardy to take comforts
to the oppressed. The group you had met should never have waited this
long. Congratulations to the two of you for your success and a job
well done.

I am sure Mr. Moua Toua Ter (Muas Tuam Thawj) had thanked you as
deeply in his heart as he could, but I like to personally thank both
of you more for informing the world that a faction of my fellow Hmong
had never met peace, although the agreement for peace had been signed in January 1973 in Paris, France and in February 1973 in Vientiane, Laos.

Laos cannot and should not be excused for what it has done for the
past three decades.

Victor N. Xiong.

"When someone fulfills our need, instead of hurrying up to say thank you, we credit their work and their abilities. By selecting a way to say thank you could make that community stronger at home, otherwise, weaker", Neeg Magazine

Subject: The Andrew Perrin Story about the Xaisomboune Special Zone
From: "Victor N. Xiong" <xiongvn@milwaukee.k12.wi.us> Add
Date: Tue, April 29, 2003 1:25 pm
To: neeg@neeg.org
Priority: Normal

Neeg, please post.

Thank you.

Comments and reactions to welcome to the Jungle of Xaisomboune
Special Zone in Northern Laos In January 1973, the U.S./Vietnam truce signed in Paris, France, resulted a subsequent cease-fire agreement between the two Lao factions, and they signed their own truce in Vientiane on February 21, 1973. The truces signed in Paris and Vientiane required complete American departure/withdrawal from Indochina. Despite the quick American pull out, the communist violated the cease-fire less than forty-eight hours after the truce had been signed in Vientiane, but there were no sanctions or actions against them. The game continued until the so-called National Reconciliation Council was formed and chaired by Prince Souphanouvong, and until the 18 articles of National Policies were established. Unfortunately, all of that meant
nothing to the communists. They violated every word they said by
allowing Soviet advisors to continue to flow into Laos.

After the so-called New Brothers (Ainong Mai) were in complete
control of the political arena of Laos, peace gradually slipped away.
Kaysone announced in May 1975 a campaign to have the Hmong removed to their roots. A program, called the Development of the rural area was implemented along with some so-called new orders. Such new orders prohibited the gatherings of three or more members in any event. Time to leave home for work was strictly set for 8:00 A.M., and the time
to be back home was strictly set for no later than 5:00 P.M.. Under
the Development of the rural area, seminars began to be held. First,
they were held locally, and former Royal officials were mandated to
participate, but after a few sessions, the participants were told that advanced principles could not be taught locally. As a result, most of the participants who were expected to go elsewhere to learn more advanced principles refused to report to local seminar camps. They also opposed to the restrictions of time to go out and return home because they used to working twelve hours a day, seven days a week, from dawn to twilight, and without sufficient time to work in farms would result famine.

Despite their oppositions, the Hmong intended to adjust to the so-called new orders, but the main matter was the extermination campaign announced by Kaysone. No Hmong could be exempted from it. Since the environment opened no room for life to continue, the only option was to resist. The Hmong had been trained to fight to the last men, and being targeted for elimination clearly required the idea. No Hmong would and should just sit and wait for death to arrive but had to be prepared to defend themselves until death was delivered to the last men. Many became refugees of course, and those who were trapped in central Laos grabbed their homemade weapons and stood against the Kaysone extermination campaign, which later came in the form of bothconventional and chemical warfare. From then to the present, the most patriotic members of the Hmong race continued to be hunted and killed by communist forces as stated by Mr. Perrin of TIME Magazine. They had been neglected for thirty years before TIME visits them in recent months. It is the first time that the Laotian government's on-going
denial that there is no more fighting in Laos is none other than a lie, and it is the first time that the world begins to realize that words from the Laotian government cannot be and are not reliable.

Mr. Perrin, thank you for risking your life to go into the killing fields. Your life not only was endangered by landmines, chemical contamination, bullets from both sides, and hunger but also from going to such an isolated territory where nobody could intervene if a tragic situation takes place. You have to carry out such an assignment simply because stories told by Hmong before caught no international attentions or were considered unreliable. Even you, yourself, might not believe the Hmong and their stories until you see the things you had seen. By now, you may be able to imagine the pain inside many Hmong who could not make their stories strong enough to stimulate the feelings of the outside world. Now, you know why the Hmong had said, are saying and perhaps will continue to say: The Hmong have no place to run. Thank you again.

Subject: Bus attack in Laos
From: "Victor N. Xiong" <xiongvn@milwaukee.k12.wi.us> Add
Date: Tue, April 22, 2003 7:33 am
To: neeg@neeg.org
Priority: Normal

Neeg, please post.

Indeed, the Laotian government, as we all know, will deny all of its
own problems and will blame anyone who is not loyal to its
dictatorial system, like the Hmong, for example. The communist regime
of Laos has targeted the Hmong for systematic elimination since June
1975, and for a legitimate cleansing purpose, it will blame the hill
tribe for everything-from robberies to government insurgency. In
reality, the government of Laos wants to cover up its aggressions
against its own people. If it provides details about such attacks,
its aggressions will be revealed, and international criticisms will
result further isolation of Laos as well as possible economic
sanctions. That is why it chooses to provide no details to any news
agency to keep its internal problems quiet for as long as possible.
The longer these problems can be kept quiet, the longer the system
will survive.

It is time for the world to realize that words from the Laotian
government just are not and cannot be reliable. The Hmong are not the
problems. The government of Laos is. It targets the Hmong for ethnic
cleansing and blame them for everything happened in Laos just so it
has a legitimate right to kill the hill tribe. Remember, tragedies
taking place elsewhere around the world appear in the news as soon as
a tragedy happens, but the Hmong have suffered for 30 years, and
their sufferings catch nobody's attention. That is sad.

Subject: Bus attack in Laos
From: "SimNwj" <simnuj@hotmail.com> Add
Date: Tue, April 22, 2003 10:16 am
To: neeg@neeg.org
Priority: Normal

Hello Neeg, please post this comment.

The laotian official reported, Hmong is the guilty party. "Oh! No no no!!! not them." his boss twist his ear. You stupid, don't blame the bandites, it is a mass. The official, low his tone and turn Hmong to white. "It was a robbery, not a campaign by rebels," Somsavat Lengsavad, the Deputy Prime Minister latter reported to the world and beyond. Jesus Christ. The poor mountain stupid Hmong born for other to blame when there is mass around them. Who is the Hmong? Small name Gen. Vang Pao. This is sad for those jungle men force by their King VP and Red Laos government. They died so painful in Laos for many years (30).