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...SURRENDERED. 172 ETHNIC HMONG, who have lived on the run from Laotian troops for the past 30 years; to government authorities; in Xieng Khouang province, Laos. Recruited to fight alongside the CIA during the Vietnam War, the Hmong fled into the jungles or across the border into Thailand to escape persecution by the country's Communist regime when the war ended. Saturday's peaceful surrender of women, children and the elderly, mediated in part by U.S. Embassy officials in Vientiane, is expected to be followed by those of thousands more, possibly including Hmong commander Moua Toua Ther?one of Laos...
...Karl Mua, 44, a Hmong-American pastor from St. Paul, Minnesota, had followed in our footsteps, looking to report the story for themselves before time runs out for the Hmong. On June 4 these three foreigners were walking out of the jungle near the northeastern Laotian province of Xieng Khouang when their party, which included heavily armed Hmong rebels acting as escorts, came under fire from government troops. During the firefight someone was killed?it's not clear who, or on which side?and shortly afterward the two journalists and their translator were captured, along with three Hmong...
Hiding Rice. Pressure by the Meo insurgents has closed Highway 4 from Paksane to Xieng Khouang and Highway 7 across the Plain of Jars. Highway 13 between Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang is so unsafe that government traffic can move only in armed convoys. South of Vientiane, Pathet Lao patrols, supported by the air force's nine T-28 fighter-bombers, manage to keep Highway 13 and Route 8 open during the day, but the Meo have full control after dark. In the south, at least 1,500 Royal Laotian army veterans and disgruntled peasants are carrying on another...
...WOMAN, My mane is Nang--, Xieng Khouang has been my families' home since the time of my ancestors... There was danger as the war came closer, like the sound of bombs or shells or the airplanes which constantly made a terrible noise in the sky and led me to be terribly, terribly afraid of dying. AT that time, our lives became like those of animals desperately trying to escape their hunters...
...SADNESS AND DEATH which these peasants describe has been inflicted entirely by a government acting in the name of the American people. The peasants of Xieng Khouang, whether we like it or not, tell us that everyone of us long ago became involved in the lives of the people of Indochina Since we are already involved, the only decisions that remain to us are who we will support--the victims or the criminals...