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'There was no resistance from the Hmong, and we will try to send them all back, ' he said.

'An American and a Thai man came into my school and I was taken away to military training, ' says Bou Than, a former Hmong soldier.

If something happen, you know, important elderly for the Hmong community who pass away in Salt Lake City, nobody know, right?

The inter influence between Hmong language and Chinese is conspicuous as a result of the long time contacts between the two ethnic groups.

The plan, revealed at a Hmong New Year dinner, was for him to make a peace deal with his former enemy on the Thai-Laotian border.

Washington state has a small Hmong community but, when Vang calls into a teleconference line, she can connect to a much bigger group.

Yong blames Vang Pao and his Hmong supporters in the US for the still-steady flow of refugees out of Laos.

Several times before, Thailand thought it had closed the book on the Hmong refugee saga.

Before the Americans arrived, opium smoking was a cultural norm in the region and was prevalent throughout the Hmong highlands.

Vang said Humboldt County has a Hmong celebration as well, and a massive event is held in Fresno.

It denies discriminating against the Hmong, one of dozens of minorities in a poor, landlocked country.

In the Hmong culture, the parents thank each individual by giving them a small amount of money as a token of appreciation.

In a clearing deep inside the Laotian jungle, a group of Hmong fall to the ground and beg me for help as soon as they see me.

Cher Vang listens in her living room in Washington state. She's middle-aged and, like many Hmong people, war has scattered her family.

A Hmong woman lowers her shirt to reveal a scar beneath her shoulder, where she says she was shot by the Lao People's Army during a raid.

"I know it's going to be challenging, " said Peter Yang, executive director of the Wausau Area Hmong Mutual Association.

"He'll be remembered as a great general, a great warrior, a great Hmong soldier, " his friend Charlie Waters told AFP news agency.

Stepped-up police co-operation to stamp out an evil little trade in Hmong women would be a good start.

"Hmong New Year will remind them of who they are and where they came from, " he said.

The original ancient folk song of Hmong(Miao), known as encyclopedia of ancient society of Hmong(Miao) people, may enbody profound truths.

Historically, the Hmong New Year celebration was created to give thanks to ancestors and spirits as well as to welcome in a new beginning.

Attitudes toward Western doctors have begun to loosen as young, assimilated Hmong-Americans assume more powerful roles in the family.

The Hmong hill tribe was recruited in 1961 by the United States to combat Vietcong forces during the Vietnam War.

The event is the biggest holiday of the Hmong calendar and was expected to draw 1, 500 people over the course of the day.

Shortly after Vang Pao's death, speaking over a phone smuggled in by Hmong-American activists, Chor Fer says his group is struggling.

Despite being home to more than 250, 000 Hmong refugees, the United States has done little to try to resolve the ongoing tensions.

Longcheng Radio is based in Minnesota, but its programs include reports from Hmong communities in Europe and Southeast Asia.

Meanwhile, the Lao People's Army continues to hunt down the remainder of the once formidable Hmong force.

The Hmong people are a minority ethnic group in several countries, including Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and China.

Human-rights groups say the Hmong may face persecution in Laos and that their forced return violates international law.

Laos denies that the Hmong, one of dozens of minority groups, face any ill treatment.

In 2007 Laos and Thailand signed a border agreement in which they decided to jointly manage and collaborate on the Hmong issue.

He said it is the third largest cluster of Hmong in the state after Milwaukee and Wausau.

During the war the CIA recruited the Hmong as anti-Communist fighters.

Nichols was not charged with a hate crime, as many in the Hmong community had demanded.

Most Hmong at Ban Huay Nam Khao are terrified of the prospect of being handed over to the Lao authorities.

If you are going to run a true Hmong New Year celebration based on what you believed, what kind the event you will be running?

From Palestinians to Greeks, Armenians to Hmong, young Internet users learn much about their culture and politics in their diaspora.

Miao festival a lot, in the festival, the Hmong people to be held in a variety of celebration activities.

Yet Lair and his unit quickly taught the Hmong to resist the Communist tide using guerrilla tactics suited to their terrain and temperament.

Christians among the Hmong minority to recant their faith and to re-establish ancestral altars, according to area church leaders.

Once peace had been agreed, Vang Pao planned to travel into Laos to assist the jungle Hmong.

Some of these Hmong have since fled from the village, presumably for the border.

It was dropping millions of pounds of food, ammunition, and weapons to the Hmong fighters each month.

This has been challenge for the Hmong culture as well as African-Americans, Latinos and American Indians.

After Communist victory in 1975, tens of thousands of Hmong fled overland into Thailand, and then California and Minnesota.

There is some tradition of bride-kidnapping among the Hmong themselves, but this gangsterised, cross-border variety is especially cruel.

Thailand's expulsion of the Hmong drew sharp criticism from American, UN and European Union officials.

U. S. officials assured the Hmong that Washington would back them until the communists were defeated.

Hmong National Development, Inc. (HND) a national non-profit registered and incorporation in Washington, D.

Recruited by the CIA to fight in the 1960s, the Hmong were among the losers in the Vietnam war.

Cher Vang stays connected with the far-flung Hmong community via teleconferencing programming.

Human rights and Hmong advocacy groups say thousands have since died from army ambushes, disease and starvation.

Accepting defeat, the Americans eventually fled, taking a handful of Hmong leaders, including Vang Pao.

Ancient folk song and long poem are the most representative works of Hmong Folk Literature.

These languages include Cantonese, Hmong, Mandarin, Thai and Vietnamese.

This article discusses the Hmong's population distribution and economic changes in Vietnam.

The Hmong picked the losing side in a conflict that spilled over into civil war in Laos.

Peter Yang said Hmong workers who lose their jobs apply for unemployment, dislocated worker programs and other social services.

That's likely a hit to dozens, with many Hmong workers supporting and living with multiple family members.

Washington provided the Hmong with minimal medical assistance.

The final group from the last official refugee camp for Hmong from Laos, at Ban Napho in northeastern Thailand, went home in 1999.

Washington's decision in 2004 to grant NTR status to Laos was seen as a betrayal by many in the Hmong community.

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The same can be said for Thailand, which allowed the forced repatriation of 4000 Hmong despite having trained many of Vang Pao's forces.

Hmong refugees, and those still in hiding in the jungles of Laos, however, remain a sticking point to those grand plans.

A woman in California sings to hundreds of people on one teleconference line. The song encourages youth to keep Hmong culture alive.

Hmong fighters were more than 10 times more likely to die as U. S. Army soldiers serving in Vietnam.

Translate the following sentence into Chinese, 'The Hmong had unknowingly brought with them an admired and valued skill.

One victim, an elderly Hmong woman, was attacked by two men whom she mistook for relatives.

Hmong girls return to camp after doing chores at the local water source.

Hmong soldiers sacrificed not for their own country, but for America while fighting alongside American soldiers in the Vietnam War.

Hmong USA now lack the patient to talk kindly.

It has been estimated that the Hmong lost nearly 100, 000 people during this secret operation.

Another niggling concern is the fate of 4, 689 ethnic Hmong who were forcibly sent back to Laos by Thailand in December.

The hosts translate global news into Hmong, Yao and Laotian.

The Hmong celebrate the New Year by performing rituals to honor the dead and the spirits of nature.

A Hmong marriage implies an agreement between two clans and it is an important goal for most Hmong men and women.

With the help of the CIA, he reportedly trained and armed more than 60, 000 Hmong fighters.

The prime minister said Thailand received 'confirmation from the Laotian government that these Hmong will have a better life. '

Rag-tag Hmong rebels remain in the remote jungles of Laos.

In 2004 America agreed to take in another 14, 000 or so Hmong who had been staying at a Thai temple.

In December it expelled more than 4, 000 Hmong to Laos, including 158 refugees recognised as such by the UN.

Goh, 22, defends the camp's water source as Hmong girls do their chores.

Chinese New Year is also a Hmong, child race, such as a grand festival of the Yao.

I am not really sure if there is really a true Hmong New Year any more in the USA.

It involved more young people, more Caucasians, and more emphasis on the future of the Hmong culture than ever before.

In 2004-05 America accepted 14, 000 Hmong who had been living at a Thai temple.

The Central Valley of California, Minneapolis and cities throughout Wisconsin have a Hmong presence of an estimated 30, 000-40, 0000.

The Hmong girl in Oakland is texting to her Mexican boyfriend in San Jose who is on Skype with his abuela in Oaxaca.

Vang said more than 500 Hmong people are spread across 70-80 families live in Del Norte County.

I can not say my opinion apply for all of Hmong people in USA, but for myself, the difficulty is already present.

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