Hmong in Minnesota, Wisconsin on edge after Thailand deportations

Source: Big News Network Hmong communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin are on edge as many families try to get information about loved ones forcibly repatriated from Thailand to Laos. Hmong community leaders in the two states…

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Laos not Ready to Give UN Access to Repatriated Hmong

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Thai troops deport 4,000 Hmong to Laos

Source: Big News Network Thursday, December 31, 2009 PHETCHABUN, Thailand: Thai troops have completed the repatriation of more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong to Laos amid criticism by the United States and other nations fearing tha…

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Minn. Hmong await news of relatives in Laos

Source: Big News Network ST. PAUL, Minn.—Days before Thailand forcibly repatriated 4,500 ethnic Hmong to Laos this week, MaoKao Thao of St. Paul called his terrified brother at a refugee camp. "He cried so much because …

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Hmong in Minnesota, Wisconsin on edge after Thailand deportations

Source: Big News Network Hmong communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin are on edge as many families try to get information about loved ones forcibly repatriated from Thailand to Laos. Hmong community leaders in the two states…

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Storm survivors dependent on food assistance

Source: Big News Network Three months after tropical storm Ketsana struck southern Laos, leaving 28 people dead and more than US$90 million in damages, thousands of survivors now find themselves food insecure. According to…

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Laos tells UN it's too soon to visit Hmong

Source: Big News Network Hmong people looks out, sitting on the back of a truck leaving their refugee camp in Phetchabun province, Thailand, on Monday, Dec. 28, 2009. Thailand sent army troops with shields and batons to evict…

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Laos tells UN it's too soon to visit Hmong

Source: Big News Network (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)Hmong people looks out, sitting on the back of a truck leaving their refugee camp in Phetchabun province, Thailand, on Monday, Dec. 28, 2009. Thailand sent army troops with shi…

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Laos tells UN it's too soon to visit ethnic Hmong

Source: Big News Network BANGKOK, Thailand — Laos denied the UN immediate access to 4,500 ethnic Hmong who were forcibly repatriated from Thailand, saying Wednesday it would "complicate" matters but that international ob…

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Laos tells UN it's too soon to visit Hmong

Source: Big News Network BANGKOK (AP) – Laos denied the U.N. immediate access to 4,500 ethnic Hmong who were forcibly repatriated from Thailand, saying Wednesday it would "complicate" matters but that international observers …

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