PARIS HILTON SHARES JAIL CELL WITH HMONG ELDER!!!!

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

I am taking time out tonight ot write about the plight of the Hmong people being persecuted by rape, torture, and murder by the Laotian armed forces. Recently, General Vang Pao and several other Hmong leaders, veterans of the "Secret War in Laos from 1961 to 1975, were arrested for attempting to recruit mercenaries for the overthrow of the Laotian government. Several of these brave men now reside in Sacramento County Jail on federal charges. Once again, we, the government AND the people of the USA, have betrayed the Hmong people.

For decades, the activist corps of the Hmong community in the United states has petitioned the US government and the United Nations to sanction Laos for the continued repression of the Hmong people remaining in their mountain homeland, to no avail.

This is a travesty of justice if there ever was one! Once upon a time, the Hmong were the most feared warriors in Southeast Asia, and served the CIA during the secret war with valor the likes of which are legend. Upon the retreat of the USA from Vietnam, the Hmong people were abandoned and left to the depredations of the Kmer Rouge and the Communist government that followed. Those that escaped had to flee on foot hundreds of miles to the squalor of refugee camps in Thailand, and then made their way to the USA. But many were unable to flee, and are still subject to the most horrible retribution from the Laotian government even now, 30 years later.

General Vang Pao has been fignting for 50 years for the good of the Hmong people and has trusted the USA to finally make good on their promise to the Hmong "We will win or lose, together."

Now he sits in jail, for love of his country. He has been betrayed most grievously by every government apparatus and entity, and his people are crying for justice!

From Sacbee.com:

"The hopes, dreams, achievements and fears of America's Hmong surfaced at a Sacramento banquet Thursday night -- along with a sense that the U.S. government, their greatest benefactor, had betrayed them again.

The man who guided the Hmong journey from the mountains and jungles of Laos to a new life of opportunity in America, Gen. Vang Pao, sits in the Sacramento County jail on charges of plotting a violent overthrow of communist Laos.

Vang, 77, is one of 10 men arrested and charged in Sacramento federal court last week with plotting a full-scale coup against Laos that would have included AK-47 assault rifles, ground-to-air Stinger missiles, anti-tank weapons and a mercenary army. The older members of the alleged conspiracy include Hmong men -- Laotian mountain tribesmen -- who followed Vang Pao as he waged war under the CIA's direction against Southeast Asian communists between 1961 and 1975.

Vang, 77, has survived a stroke and heart bypass surgery in recent years and suffers from diabetes and high cholesterol. But many still consider him the heart and soul of America's 250,000 Hmong and the thousands of others still trapped in Thailand and the jungles of Laos, where Amnesty International reports they have been assaulted and murdered by the Laotian military."


Read more here: Hmong sense new betrayal