Word: laotians
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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...
...being sold as food in a Lao market. Genetic analysis revealed the animal diverged from other rodents millions of years ago, making this the first discovery of an entirely new scientific family-a classification above genus and species-since 1974. The animal's discoverer, Robert Timmins, calls it a Laotian Rock Rat, and said it could represent "the last remaining mammal family left to be discovered...
...MINORITIES: A Laotian refugee tells of mistreatment of the Hmong...
...shocking,” pointing to Bombies, an hour-long examination of the enduring ramifications of the secret war in Laos, as especially effective. In noting that the United States dropped over 2 million bombs in the area—or two tons of bombs for every Laotian man, woman and child—and that many of these “bombies” have not yet detonated, the film manages to convey the enormous consequences of the war. The documentary notes that the United States still uses these weapons, dropping them in places like Afghanistan and Kosovo...
...trial criticized by international press groups and human-rights organizations as a sham. The two journalists were arrested on June 4 in the country's northeast, where they were reporting on an insurgency by ethnic Hmong guerrillas. A Hmong-American interpreter was also freed, but two Laotian guides remained in prison. Brutal Youth JAPAN A 12-year-old boy admitted murdering 4-year-old Shun Tanemoto by pushing him off the roof of an eight-story parking garage, leading shocked Japanese to question their laws on juvenile crime. Because the killer is below the age of 14, he cannot...