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...simply that they are Hmong, mostly the children, grandchildren or even great-grandchildren of fighters who in the 1960s sided with the U.S. to fight communism in Laos during the Vietnam War. Fabled for their resourcefulness and valor, many Hmong became members of a secret CIA-backed militia that helped rescue downed U.S. pilots and disrupted North Vietnamese supplies and troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through central Laos. The communist Pathet Lao movement?and its patrons in Hanoi?has never forgotten the Hmong's complicity with the Americans. Shortly after the Pathet Lao took power...
...casts a long shadow over his people. Moua says he reports directly to Vang?a claim the Californian denies, though he does admit to providing occasional help. From his suburban American home, the exiled general demands democracy and a reinstatement of the monarchy in Laos. Moua and his militia are among the remnants of Hmong rebel groups fighting for that disappearing dream...
...future commensurate with their number. It was an impressive end to two weeks of organizing in which local imams around the country, acting on orders from the central religious authority at Najaf, moved to fill the power vacuum left by the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. By creating militia and community organizations that have stopped looting and restored basic services, they have demonstrated their centrality to the project of stabilizing Iraq - the organizational ability and moral influence of the Shiite clerics makes them, or at least their blessing, indispensable to any new Iraqi authority...
...Bois Institute and the Harvard Coop co-sponsor a discussion and book signing by Pulitzer Prize nominee Levitas, who will discuss the extent of the terrorist threat posed by white supremacist groups in the United States as described in his most recent book, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right, which provides a history of white supremacist groups from their post-Civil War roots to the present. Tuesday, April 22 at 7 p.m. Free. Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass...
...Bunker Hill Monument is Boston’s version of the Washington Monument in our country’s capitol. Located in the historic Charlestown neighborhood, this towering obelisk commemorates the site of the first major battle of the Revolutionary War when colonial militia men valiantly defended the strategic hilltop against the Red-coat invaders on June 17, 1775. Climb up the 294 steps inside the monument for a great view of downtown Boston. The Bunker Hill Monument provides irrefutable proof that prudish Bostonians appreciate a patriotic phallus as much as the average American...