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Laos: What became of the young Hmong refugees expelled from Thailand three months ago?

Cyprien, Samedi, Février 25, 2006 - 04:36

Cyprien

It has been nearly three months to the day that 27 Hmong refugees - one adult and 26 teenagers aged 13 to 16-who were taken in by the provisional displaced persons settlement of Ban Houai Nam Khao (Phetchaboun province, Thailand), were expelled by the Thai authorities and sent back to Laos, according to concordant information received by the Lao Movement for Human Rights (LMHR).

This group of teenagers comprised of 21 young girls and 5 boys, was challenged by the Thai police on 28 November 2005 as they were returning from a choir practice in preparation of the Christmas celebrations.
They were taken to the border city of Nongkhai by bus in the beginning of December, and expelled towards Laos without any notice to their parents.

According to the international media, the fate of these teenagers is still unknown to this day in spite of the numerous steps taken by the UN authorities, the European Union, the United States and Australia, to approach Bangkok as well as Vientiane.

Beyond the politico-diplomatic mess surrounding this tragic matter, the LMHR goes up against the conditions of the expulsion of these teenagers, and calls on the authorities of the Lao People´s Democratic Republic (LPDR) to give without delay news of these youngsters to their families, and to guarantee their security, their physical and psychological health, as it has been two months since they reached Lao soil.

To the LMHR, it is rather unlikely that the expulsion of about thirty people, and what is more members of the Hmong ethnic minority, could have been conducted without the knowledge of the LPDR authorities, which remain for the observers a monitored country where nothing ever occurs without the consent of the authorities of the State-Party.

Consequently, it is more than time for the leaders of the Lao regime to stop hiding behind cynical prevarications and set language, and to cooperate fully with the international organizations so as to put an end to the ordeals of these teenagers, and allow without delay their return to their parents in Thailand.

On this occasion, the LMHR reiterates its call to the international community, asking it to help these thousands of Lao-Hmong men, women, and children who are being chased and eliminated day after day by the LPDR soldiers in the Saysomboun and Bolikhamsay jungles, and to put pressure on the Lao regime so that freedom, democracy and human rights are respected in that country.

The list of the persons arrested on 28 November reads as follows:

1 adult: Mme Zoua Yang - 21 young girls: May Nhia, Pakou Vang, Ia Lor, Pahia Yang, Hnou Xiong, Pahoua Yang, Yangyoua Vang, Maymoua Vang, Mee Yang, Choua Vue, Pakou Vue, Yer Vue, Zong Vue, Ker Vue, Yia Vue, Kia Thao, Youa Thao, Sheng Yang, Kia Vue, Pahua Yang, Xee Yang - 7 young boys (two of whom have not been expelled): Dang Vang, Chay Vang, Neng Yang, Meng Xiong, Meng Yang, Chan Thao, Pao Yang.

Press Release,
Mouvement Lao pour les Droits de l'Homme ( MLDH)
Lao Movement for Human Rights ( LMHR)
BP 123 - 77206 Torcy Cedex, France - Téléphone/Fax : 33 (0) 1 60 06 57 06

Lao Movement for Human Rights
LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC : Up to 29 ethnic Hmong people, including 23 children 5


Sujet: 
Hmong expelled from ThaiLand to Laos.
Auteur-e: 
Sam Lee
Date: 
Mer, 2006-03-01 17:40

It's been 2 to 3 months and we, the media have not received any response from Thai & Lao authorities. I followed this issue for the last 2 months. And what this two great countries did was blaming each other. The world need to know that this children was already torture, ill-treatment, and possible raped by their captives. We Hmong know the true of the sick mind of Thai and Lao authorities.

I want to assure the world that Thai and Lao government was ignoring this kind of activities since the fall of Laos and will continued to ignore. If western countries just sit and wait for answer from Thai and Lao authorities, it will never happen. This is not the first group mistreated by Thai & Lao government. We Hmong been treated this way for the last 30 years, enough is enough.

Hmong are not rebels, terrorists. We want freedom of speech, rights, and opportunities. But when Hmong speak up for freedom, speech, an rights, we were accused as trouble maker, please help us please!!


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