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Inside Reported From Nong Khai, Thailand - October 1, 2007
Post October 4, 2007 - Neeg Magazine

6:30 PM US time, KaMai called on a cell phone and stated that on September 29, 2007 one of the highest Thai officials in Thailand went to visit the detention center in Nong Khai and puts pressure to the detainees to agree to be returned to Laos. “Your stay in jail will go on if you are not willing to go back to Laos,” he stated in an angry tone. He further stated that “your long stay in jail is because of the Laotian government. The officials asked the Thai authority to continue to lock you in jail. We, the Thai government do not want to jail you for so many months.” The detainees and the Thai official continued to argue about the situation in Laos; that it is not safe for them to return because of the many hundreds of thousands of Hmong who died in Laos and no one claims to know but the Laotian government knows the facts.
The detainees asked to let they go to a third world country as according to those countries who already excepted them. The Thai official responded that, those are very small countries and they are meaningless to the Thai government. Laos is their good and strong support ally and the detainees must go back and then the detainees’ problem is solved. When the detainees asked that if you are going to force the Hmong to go back to Laos, they ask the Thais to kill them before their enemy can have the opportunity to torture them. They would like to die peacefully and not die in a suffering way. The Thai official did not respond and he left.
The Hmong has become a Product of Thailand to the Thai officials to trade for profit. A very corrupted system in the world whose government officials could only run to make money of its own people and people of concern such as the Hmong. The Hmong will continue to suffer until they all die in Thailand. Even though those who are already dead the Thai still dig from the ground to burn until they all become ash.
About 300,000 Hmong who became refugees in Thailand and resettled in the United States have faced the above mind torturing. They will live for the rest of their lives smelling the pain in a third world country. This
torture will continue to occur and become flashbacks, nightmares, and dreams. The 153 Hmong refugees detained in Nong Khai have suffered in Laos for far too long and why do Thailand add to their pain?
I am Tou Yang, KaMai's younger brother in the US and I can no longer afford to hear news that Thai government is continuing to torture the
Hmong especially the 153 who are refugees under the International Law in which it would apply to any human being including Thai and Lao people. Please free them and let them go to a country that they can be allowed to breathe. The Laotian government has been killing them for over thirty years and that is very clear to any human being to recognize this kind of torture, execution, and killings. The Hmong are no longer able to live with this kind of an evil hunter. They are just like any human being in the world and why do they have to continue to face an unfair justice. The people of Thailand knows the way the Thai government treats the Hmong; unfair and unjust. When I visited Bangkok in January of 2007, I met with a refugee and he stated “I was arrested by a Thai policeman and he told me that he was not just arresting me, there must be something to negotiate before further officials are notified. I then put my hand in my pocket and gave him 20 bat. I flipped all my pockets and told the official that this is the only money I got. The official took the money and told me to run. I took off and my bad day in Bangkok was over.” The next day, I went to visit a Thai Pastor in Bangkok in which he provided shelter for some of the refugees and he stated “ the round up arrests in Bangkok have to do with the residents here. The Hmong refugees are with big families and the residents who lived here were just a couple with one or two children and the city had always been crowded. Many of the apartments that the Hmong refugee took shelter in are also very small and created a lot noise to the residents. It made them dislike the Hmong and they reported to the immigration officials. The other issue is the mayor and the lady who own the apartment are having some kind of issue in the past and the mayor also reported the Hmong refugee to the immigration officials.
The Hmong, according to the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees are legally staying in Bangkok for further resettlements to another country. Unfortunately, when the immigration official was notified they have to arrest these refugees. After confirmation with the UN officials and the refugees who were refugees shall be released. To protect people from being tortured, forced against will, and disliked other minority for many years in our church, I don’t understand why this time, the refugees have to be transported to Nong Khai IDC. I felt injustice to the refugees.”
Since the Vietnam War and the conflict in Laos was over, hundreds of
thousands of different communities became refugees in Thailand including the Hmong. About 300,000 of them resettled in the United States and more than 100,000 of the Hmong resettled in other countries such as France, Australia, Canada, and other country. The Hmong became a major economic contribution to Thailand. Giving an low estimated contribution of Thai economic in trade of the Products of Thailand. The Hmong exported Thai products at about one billion dollars per month. I hope that the Hmong can’t contributed much more of Thailand will; although, view the refugees as human beings and please do not torture them. The word suffer is built in their body, mind, and soul. Every Hmong around the world will have to live with the word “suffer“. That has become one of the biggest American Mental Health syndromes and the Hmong are facing it both internally and abroad. The 153 refugees in Nong Khai are not the only Hmong on this earth. Their families, relatives, friends, and the whole Hmong community is conscious about the treatment the refugees receive today in Thailand.
Here is the a few words of the refugees share to the world, “we have been suffering and we are willing to die and die in a peaceful manner. We wish the world recognize the ongoing war in Laos that continues to kill hundreds of thousands of the ethnic minorities in Laos. We ask that the world live with our suffering from the tortures we receive from Lao and
Thai today. We ask the world to save our children and let them be free.
Thank you.”

A Voice of Suffering
By KaMai Yang with translation by Tou Yang
September 16, 2007

A lifetime of criminality behind my back, in search for life to be normal,
and asking you to view my 30 years in the jungle of Laos. Life is full of pain and suffering. Thirty years in the jungles, life was constantly on the move; running and hiding. There were no food and clothes. Children died suffering so much. I faced many times being in the rain and during cold seasons in the jungles. It was so cold; women gave birth to many children like animals as it was so bloody. Holding a small hoe in my pocket, it saved my hunger. This small hoe, I can use to dig wild potatoes for food. A very useful tool my family had survived on for so many years.
I kept this small hoe high prized; such a major peace of gold. I stayed in the deep jungles; in the very deep center of the bottom of the hill. Above me was covered with forest, wild birds, squirrels, and living greens. They were my friends. There was natural water near by every place. Little children automatically trained themselves to be on the run, quick, and skillful to hide when machine guns were fired. They were so small and not able to run and hide from poison (warfare biological poison) falling from the sky. Even a sunny day, the sky will release rain out of a small airplane from the sky. Life can’t be any suffering than it was in the last 30 some years. When people were out for hunting wild game, animals were to fear and ran for their lives. When a government was out to hunt down on the Hmong in Laos, many children in the jungles among hundreds of thousand of families were gunned down. We are human beings and even we are able to sense the hunters coming, our children fear death and wonder why. A lifetime of criminal in the minds of the Laotian government.
It is a miracle my family survived these traumatic events and times.
When I rested and caught up on sleep, I dreamt of a life with no traumatic events; where the government doesn’t hunt people like the Hmong.
To what degree of crime I had encounter in my life to deserve such
punishment beyond what words can describe. I had an opportunity to meet with a few journalists who risked their lives to visit us and learned
that there is a world of peace who view human beings as human beings. No sooner, with no one recommending, I risked my life in the path of
thousands of my fellow Hmong and journeyed to Thailand. Yes, I crossed the river (Mekong) to Thailand without a visa, although, I enter for a life, a life of my children. I reported myself immediately to the United Nation High Commission for Refugees in Bangkok and begged the official to review my case. I must thank god and the officials who consider my case for protection with the cord of life. I am a man without any power, position, and no country of any government who should come forward and thank those who saved my life. But I am to honor for those who view human beings humanely and the protection of lives. I was released for not long until my family returned to another level of crime. An illegal immigrant into Thailand as the Thai classified my status. I call on the world to view my case to seek protection and not
illegal immigrant to Thailand. My family is among the 153 group who face hardship from the Thai Authority at the detention centers both in Bangkok and now Nong Khai. We were secretly attained and loaded in three buses and were headed to Laos. A few of the men, including myself, locked ourselves in the cells of the detention room and resisted to get out. We preferred to die together in the cells for our suffering. We escaped the killing field in Laos and will not go back to die for them. We faced tear gas with smoke thrown through the windows and many children became ill and fainted.
We, the older men, hung on to breathe until officials from the UNHCR arrived to help negotiate the deportation. With this punishment, I saw human suffering in greater harm. A man wounded by a machine gun in the jungles on his face was pulled out of the hospital and loaded onto the bus laying outside our cells and was bleeding to death for two days and two nights. He hung on hard on his own for the love of his soul and was able to survive. Small children without any acknowledgement of this crime were forced, ordered, and locked in the detention center. A child who have not been born also face jail, and my life extends the 30 years in the jungle for another level of lost. Our lives continue to face hardships and we are treated as a product for trade among the country we live in. This hardship seems endless to our future.
I am thankful to the Netherland’s government and its Embassador in Bangkok for accepting us to settle in their country. With long waiting for
permission of the Thai government resettlement process, our life continues in suffering, bitterness, and painful. The Lao - Thai relationship talk continues to affect our lives and are heading us to heaven instead to
re-start a new life in a third world country; a country of peace and humanity. I am sitting in a small cell in the Nong Khai detention center
praying and begging to the world who offers humanity and life to call on the Lao and Thai authorities to release us. Myself among the children who suffer together in the detention center may not have anything to offer any one (government) but can only be pleased for a life as other human beings.
We are a group of people of no nation, no country, and no government. We have been punished for a long bad history of war (the Vietnam War - a conflict in Laos) with hope that our American allies have not completely forgotten us. Please do not classify us as your enemy (terrorists). Our suffering was shared with your dream and power. Please release us for humanity, opportunity to search for food, and may our children be equally with many children around this world wide. Thank you.
I am KaMai Yang with help to translate my word to the world, my brother Tou Yang in Wisconsin. He can be reached at (920)410-9953.

The Hmong Crisis in Thailand involved Laos - Continue
September 2, 2007- Neeg Magazine - Snyu Yang

The plight of the Hmong is continuing to be on the rise in Thailand - erosion from Laos. An issue that not many countries are interested in and enjoy to process; not even the Hmong themselves want to process. It is a matter of life and death. Someone has to deal with and go through. Hmong have to go through and deal with it because of the torturing, execution, and killing fields in Laos. These are refugees are later diagnosed with mental health problems (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, etc…). The Hmong continue to face this problem from the past and so much to come. They had been refugees in Thailand in the last 30 years and is still another 30 years of refugees to go. Coming to an end in 2004, according to Lao and Thai authorities, Hmong are not legitimate refugees, they are defined as illegal immigrants, crossing to Thailand for economic reasons, and an opportunity to get an free ticket to the US. With the Lao and Thai authorities making such accusations against the Hmong, the situation affects them even worse, even though, many of the Hmong in Thailand are refugees and have been approved as refugees by the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees. They still face deportation without any other countries involved. And for those who were secretly deported by Thai authorities into Laos, we never heard of them again. No one have any information of their whereabouts; only the reports the Laotian government of finding them living very peacefully in Laos. So, the Laotian government is dancing with wolf.
For god save!!! If the Hmong refugees in Thailand are not Hmong but happen to be Thai or Lao “humanitarian protections” is applied. The tongue of the Lao official who spoke on behalf of the Hmong in Thailand does not hold any safety for any human beings. A very clear history has been indicated that Hmong people are tortured, executed, and jailed by the Lao government. The Hmong who are now in Thailand are refugees, particularly the 153 detainees in Nong Khai IDC. This group of people are refugees and have been granted refugee status by the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees in Thailand. They are in need of protection as recognized in the International Law in which would have protected anyone including a person who is a member of a communist state. It is an international Law that anyone would desire when it affects them including the communist Lao and the hatred Thai government against the Hmong. The tongue of Mr. Yong hold no responsibility for the hundreds of thousands of Hmong who died in Laos and were killed by Lao officials. I speak on behalf of Mr. Vue Mai's death. "The two countries can solve the Hmong problem peacefully and shouldn't involve a third party" stated Mr. Yong. This is a tortured tongue speaking from Mr. Yong's evil foreign policy. Kaison Phomihan had solved the Hmong problem peacefully in Laos in the last thirty some years and yet Laos still have his problems today. The Hmong problem in Laos has gone on and it began with the Laotians devil mind. A dictatorship run government and communism ran states are result in similar torturing, executions, and killings of civilians to be endless. The whole world recognize it. Why does Mr. Yong still fool around that the Hmong problem in Laos is peaceful? A government who run a state and involve in a crime will continue to be in need of proving his or her wrongdoings. Mr. Yong is a perfect devil no different than Sadam Hussein.
Mr. Yong speaks with a very low status official language but speaks for
the nation of Laos. Mr. Yong denies any charges against Laos for the past thirty years. It sounds like he is making a very foolish statement to
fool the world that there are nothing going on in Laos in the last 30 years. A documentary “Hunted Like Animals” by Rebecca Sommerdefined that there are something still going on in Laos and it happens deep far from the city of Vientiane, Laos. The violent senses detailing children of being slaughtered in the film made it clear that the Hmong refugees in Thailand could never have an end. Whether Lao and Thai classified the Hmong as an illegal immigrant, economic reason, or trying to get a free airplane ticket to go to the US. It’s sure that not all people in this world are blind. If the whole world is going blind, the Lao and Thai government must elect their officials from a mental impairment candidate.
Someone like Laos just can not continue to fool people and make an
assumption that the world is blind and deaf. The Hmong suffered and their sufferings are measurable. If there will be a trial, a cross examination will measure the cost (hundreds of thousands of children, women, and elderly died silently in Laos).
Let’s make my point across: if the Hmong migrants to Thailand are for
economic reasons therefore, the Laotian government must perform a very poor states making her people wanting to move out of the country as far as they could go. If so, the Hmong only want a free airplane ticket to fly to the US, they must be a very smart people to get a free flight, not many people in the world are getting a free flight, therefore, the world who establish organizations to protect human beings must also form from a very stupid people. And the Hmong get them to believe what they are trying to prove. If not, the very corruption government such as Lao and Thai, need a free ride to go around and make statements to fool the world. When I was born, I was a Hmong, when I suffered, I knew, I was a Hmong. I experienced as a refugee and left behind a family who suffered deep in the jungles of Laos for over thirty years and that tells me, the Hmong do not need a free ride but they need a life to live as a human being.
Thai Prime Minister Sunyrad stated that the 153 refugees in Nong Khai who wish to go to a third world country and if other countries accept them, are allowed to go. Now the 153 have been accepted from Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, and the United States, Their wish is still caught with the PM’s tongue. A leader speaks for life not for fun or entertaining other people. The Hmong can not suffer more than they already have. Thirty years in the jungle and now sitting in jail without sun light shining through - that is “traumatic.”
The 153 Hmong detained in Nong Khai are not the only Hmong in this world. Hmong are all over the world and they see how the Laotian and Thai governments treat them. It seemed that the 153 Hmong refugees are animals and the Thai government treats them like a piece of meat that would trade for profit. This is a very corrupted system such as Lao and Thai whose officials have received hundreds of thousands of Thai Bat to ship the Hmong to Thailand and now they play another significant role in turning around to get government funding to ship the Hmong back. In deep, the Hmong who sought for the Lao and Thai secret officials to transport them to Thailand came from the jungles of Laos. A perfect game rolled in a corrupted system a refugee would never come to an end. It only ends when the corrupted system dies and many of the officials shipped into jail of their own.
The Hmong will forever be a legitimate refugee and a person and/or group of people of concern. As many refugees stated, if the dictators of the Laotian government stay in Laos, we must go. Either one must go. We have to leave because we have shared a great sink of blood in Laos.
On behalf of the 153 Hmong refugees in Nong Khai, Lao and Thai are going to force them to bury themselves just like the character was originated formed by Aldo Hilter of Germy. Only they can feel the pain and suffer when action took place during life and death.

My Brother and Yours
Posted August 20, 2007 - Neeg Magazine - Tou Yang

The night before August 19, 2007 was nightmare for all counselors. Around 7:30 PM, I did a 60 minute phone interview with my brother KaMai Yang and the group in Nong Khai. The group stated that the decision to starve themselves and die in jail is because of the abuse and tortured treatment of the Thai authorities and government. (1) Since January 30, 2007, all blankets, mosquito tents, and cooking utensils were taken from the refugees and were removed from the room where they are staying. (2) From the last month and to the current time, Thai authorities have locked the group inside the two small cells all day and night and have cut the group from clean water. All (women, men, children, and elderly) cannot take their clothes outside to dry, instead must hang them inside the cells where mold has begun to emerge. The refugees have had to wash their clothes within the cells for the past two months. The clothes are very smelly and wet but there are no other clothes; therefore, they have to wear what they have. (3) This abuse has been ordered and forced upon from Bangkok and the authorities. The authorities at Nong Khai have implemented this force to suffer the group until death or unless the group willingly deports back to Laos. (4) There are many sick children, women, men, and elderly. They have no access to medical care and no access to a doctor. No one has been allowed to go further beyond the front doors of the two small cells where women is kept on one cell and men in the other.
By cutting off clean water and locking the group in a room not capacity enough to size all 153 for 9 months without a fair trial can only result in traumatics. The group sees no future to live their lives anymore if locked in this kind of condition. This is inhumane treatment. The decisions of the Thai and Lao to neglect this group of human beings will torture them to death.
The night before August 19, 2007, the group have already starved themselves for a total of three days and three nights. The children lay
on the floor weak and unable to move, talk, or cry. One elderly fainted many times because of her health being weak. There are (1) babies from
ages 1-5 months who suffer greatly because their mother is unable to give them milk, (2) children ages 1-10 who are affected by the inappropriate food, clean water, and not enough food. A major concern for the children is the mosquito bites. They suffer greatly with this abuse by the Thai authorities. (3) The elderly. And (4) the adult men and women. This will be the last group to die in jail according to Tub Xiong reporting. Mr. Ntxoov Lee Lor stated in the interview, he is very ill because of the water. He has constant diarrhea. Many children talked to me during the interview with fears of dying but also wondering how heaven may be like to live a normal life and be like other children.
The men in the group stated this is their last word to share with the rest of the world and hope that the world will help them suffer to death. They dedicate their lives to those who care and protect human RIGHTs. The group stated that they are the Hmong who are just a small part of the world and who doesn’t mean much to the world as human beings but only a product of Thailand (153 detainees). From now on, people around the world who buy things from Thailand will buy the 153 Hmong refugees as part of that product.
The Hmong came to live on this earth as human beings but has faced great sufferings from one generation after another with the particular period of the Vietnam War and the Secret War in Laos. The Hmong continue to be “hunted like animals” (Rebecca Sommer) by the Laotian government.
The group asked that Thai authorities not suffer their lives anymore than they have already in the last 9 months and the last 30years in thejungles of Laos. The Kingdom of Thailand has made it a policy to protect human beings and to protect the rights of individuals of their country and others who seek them for refuge. The Hmong came to Thailand for life not for economic reasons and it is not as simple as what the Lao embassy in France stated that “The Hmong are trying to get a free plane ticket to fly to the US.“ This is a political statement that hides the truth of the Laotian government to kill minorities in Laos. The 153 refugees in Thailand don’t need a free ticket but a chance to live life as human beings. They are the remnants left over from the jungles of Laos. The group wishes that Lao and Thai achieve their great relationship and wishes well for what they have done of torturing the Hmong, especially the 153 souls. The group wishes they are not the only Hmong bodies in this world. They hope their relatives abroad and others still suffering in Laos will see how they die.
As a US counselor working to protect human abuse and neglect, the situation above is a violation of any government in any country for the right to protect people. The treatment is not suitable for any human beings including Thai and Lao people. We live with the consequences to assure human beings are protected from abuse, neglect and torture. Weoften encourage individuals to live that consequence. An individual or
any level of government would never encourage their people to abuse others. As a counselor, I hope that Lao and Thai view human beings for their RIGHTs and not for agreement of their boarder relationship. The
Hmong people are true refugees due to many executions, tortures, and mass killings. Even after 30 years, they are still legitimate refugees and
shouldn’t end because of the mass killings in Laos. The Thai government and its officials recognized that fact. Look into human’s eyes and offer appropriate shelter for them including the 153 Hmong refugees in Nong Khai IDC, Thailand.

By Snyu Yang
A Graduate of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Counselor Education

A century of Human Suffering
By Snyu Yang - Neeg Magazine - July 20, 2007

After the Vietnam conflict in Laos more than half a million Hmong people were torn. One major impact to this human suffering was during the long journey across the Mekong River into Thailand. With 80 percent of the Lao Hmong who journeyed by foot across the deep jungles experiencing some form of Post Traumatic Events. Family members, children, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters face traumatic events along the way. Almost every men and women who made it to Thailand and eventually resettling in a third world country has a story to tell. Here is just a story of Chou Lee who resides in Appleton, WI. "My father held my hand, carried a full back basket, and walked through the dark journey to Thailand. We were lucky to be alive. God had blessed us. Along our journey in the jungles, we saw dead human bodies laying full in an open field. Some have already died, others were beginning to rot, while others were still bleeding waiting to die. In this full field of dead bodies, a child about two years old sat next to his mother who already passed away a few days ago. The child was still feeding from the nurture of his mom’s breast. He was scared but couldn’t cry no longer. We were traveling with many others from my father’s family and we couldn’t take in another person as it would mean more liability and risk. We passed the boy and left him to stay with his dead mother. I took one last look at the boy. He was very thin with brown eyes and black hair. He sat and holding his mom, he love his mom and won‘t let go of her. I saw his eye open and signal goodbye to us. This is a lifetime of memory of a deep heart felt to have let go of the little boy deep in the jungles. How scary he will be? It is one of greatest memory that has stayed in my heat; a memory I can never let go. The shadow of the little boy holding on to his mom is paint in my heart. I have never let go of this little boy. He is a lovely Hmong boy, no different than I. He spoke the same language as I and could have been a brother of mine. All I can prey is peaces and I still love you."
Chou Lee and his family journeyed to Thailand from Northern Laos to camp Nam Yao, Thailand. The road he stepped through met no big river. Only in the middle and the south part of the country, the Lao Hmong people had to cross the Mekong River. According to Thai document, human bodies were trapped in the dams along the river. About forty to sixty bodies were reported each day. Earlier through this expedition the Thai guards were able to pull the bodies and bury them. It came a time when there were too many bodies that the Thai guards burned the bodies once pulled from the dam. These bodies included men, women, children, and the elderly. This happened as a result of a journey taken to find freedom and escape persecution, killing, and punishment. It has been a great hardship in a lost of Hmong people’s lives throughout history. The Mekong River still remains to this day. It still comes alive in the story cloths of Hmong women who are passionate about needle work and sew the story of these traumatic events through their hardworking hands.
Hundreds of thousands of men, women, elderly, and children were forced to die while fleeing the country. Some became trapped because of landmines, some were trapped by Laotian soldiers’ bullets, while many others died because of starvation and illnesses. A century of human suffering, made the Hmong story cloth a popular art everyone must claim for a collection.
Young girls were captured and forced as sex slaves and were raped,
tortured, and slaughtered. Men hung from trees and slaughtered like animals. This was truly a time of joy for the hunters of the Hmong who made them suffer as victims. For over thirty years, the Hmong experienced hardships and inhumane treatment. The Hmong sided with the Americans caring off the supply line along the Ho Chi Min Trail during the Vietnam War. This conflict paints the Laotian government’s mind hard for the people to believe. Most minority groups in Laos face hardships, including the Hmong, Yao, Kha Mum, Lao Ther, and other small minority groups.

The Mekong River
One piece of bamboo saved hundreds of thousands of Hmong lives. Other pieces were too little and could not saved everyone who crossed the Mekong River. Hundreds of thousands of bodies fell into the bottom. According to the Thai guards, there were about 40-60 bodies pulled from the river on a daily basis from 1975-1985(United Nation High Commissioner for Refugee, Thailand). Most of the bodies pulled were children and elderly.
According to the Hmong community, who made it to the refugee camps most had lost at least one member of their family. This event has contributed to the Hmong population and yet it seems that only fewer other is interested to learn about their story. It has been a century of suffering painted deep in every Hmong heart and mind. It is a syndrome in which has been built in the hearts of most elderly parents. The Mekong River divided and broadened Hmong lives.

Refugee Camp in Thailand
Life in a refugee camp not only affected Hmong but also other Lao citizens, Cambodians, Vietnamese and other minority groups. People living in the refugee camps lived through many hardships. Many children were seen laid idled with hunger and illnesses. People living in refugee camps were oppressed people. A Hmong man who had the title of “captain” stated “I was faced with women, children; the whole group. I must follow orders or face terrible consequences such as beating and kicking by the Thai guards. I only had one minute to go to the bathroom on the side of roads. Life was a great suffer. I wondered where freedom was.”
In the camps each family was provided shelter in a hot humid and moldy buildings. When the weather became hot, the condition in these shelters were unbearable. There was no privacy, no real home, and no peace.
Children became ill on a daily basis with multiple sicknesses such as chicken pox, diarrhea, and others. Death became a regular known thing in the camps as it occurred daily. Because conditions in the camps were terrible, people took advantage of each other, especially the camp
leaders, guards, and refugee leaders. It seemed that there were no order to life; no structure to raise children. Children at the camps grew up in an influx of taking advantage of each other. A refugee doesn’t have tomorrow to live for as life seemed endless. They lived day by day without thinking much about the future. Schools and hospitals were made available by the United Nation. Children were able to attend elementary school in the camp. An outlet with a cross sign building know to be a life saving hospital was daily a long line for check up, bleeding, infection, diarrhea, and etc. Born as a refugee, one must be hushed.
People who experienced life as an refugee seemed to be confused with structure. They must live through the image of being controlled, taking advantage of, and must suffer to survive. With much pressure and unstable living, traumatic stress builds in their minds and affects their daily functioning. Those who suffered through such traumatic stress can’t seem to pull themselves from the events. It is a permanent stressor in their lives, especially elderly and parenthood at time.

Third World Country
Moving and living in a different country is difficult for refugees to adjust. A refugee’s life can never be defined to put into words. From what’s lost living as a refugee from life can never be replaced or found; however, with time they have found a way to adjust and release much of what they have gone through. It can never be completely forgotten. They begin to release much of how they were persecuted, how many of the people they knew were killed, and much of the isolation they have been through.
Many of those who are the first generation to come to a third world country in posted to relearn a new system. Those of the second generation have more of a chance to adjust and grasp the new system of living in a different country. It will continues an incompletion of life for a refugee.
With further stage, many refugees are diagnosed with major mental health issues. Although, they are physically free, they still struggle as they are “reborn” and starting over again in a new life. The new life found
them a better than those forced to return to their home country and faced persecution. Many and many of those who were returned were never heard from again. They faced a silent disappearance. Mr. Vue Mai is an example of one person who was return Laos and silently disappeared. Both parent and children continue suffering from what was posted in their life. Many social workers, counselors, and trainers in the field of human service found refugees a challenge client and culture imperfect. Often time both parties had few competency in either system. It was a new challenge and new world for those who face and learn to adjust with those who are experiencing the difficulty systems.

Deep in The Jungle of Laos
Over three decades the Hmong refugee continue to face challenges in their lives. Many of them settled in refugee camps and resettled in a third world country. Left behind are hundreds of thousands trapped deep in the jungles of Laos. Hmong at large including the current refugee group detained in Nong Khai IDC face one of the most post traumatic event ever in human time. To begin with some of the deadly warfare that destroyed human lives was the “Yellow Rain.” Yellow Rain contributed by the Soviet Union and fed by the Laotian government. It was a warfare biological chemical in which not just wiped out the Hmong in the jungle but continues to affect both wild animals and nature in Laos. During this event, many Hmong children had diarrhea, bled, and “melted” alive to die. Out of the “Yellow Rain,” machine guns, and landmines were heavy poisons to the Hmong in the jungles. It was the last event that affected the Hmong silently in Laos. Starvation and disease were other tools defining a century of human suffering especially “for the Hmong.” An accurate number of loss have not been counted and no one is held accountable for it. It is a continued pain in the hearts of every Hmong man and woman and they will continue to state for record base on individual collected information from families and the community members. As of today, many Hmong students and educators will surely unrest because them brothers and sisters had been suffering for over a century. This post traumatic event had become Khaisou Phovihan’s biggest event known as the “Ethnic Cleaning” in Laos. It was his effective strategy to wipe out minorities in Laos after Patheth Lao came to power.
With 90 percent of the Hmong who were refugees and resettled in third world countries and those who still are trapped in the jungle experience children melting alive, bodies cut in half, and a deathly hungry posed. All of these events are dated from 1975 to the present time. The Hmong community continues to suffer and these hurtful dramas affect both the victims those who are abroad. A century of suffering remains with hatred against minorities in Laos. One of the painful drama was the 153 Hmong refugees who are now facing deportation and are detained in Nong Khai, Thailand. Among the men from this group are those who died left over in the junglesof Laos and they are now seeking for life with the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees in Thailand. Every Hmong abroad and including the 153 are praying for their safety. With the fact that the
Hmong community had never had a country and had been treated poorly from any country that they had associated to. All Hmong in this world should urge the Thai government and the King of Thailand to save the 153 group of people. They have faced hardships in their lives and came to Thailand for life not for economic reasons as Mr. Yong and the Thai General stated. Their cases have been defined through the UN’s officials and they are “people of concern.”
With the return of this group back to Laos, every single men will all face death. The Laotian government demands this group of men and children due to the fact that the truth will prevail. This group of people are not terrorists to any nation or government but are fighting for their lives and freedom. Born to be a human but why must they have to face hardships in life? With whose force was it from the beginning?

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