DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org The Hmong are an Asian ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Hmong are also one of the sub-groups of the Miao ethnicity (苗族) in southern China. Hmong groups began a gradual southward migration in the 18th century due to political unrest and to find more arable land. A number of Hmong people fought against the communist Pathet Lao during the Laotian Civil War. Hmong people were singled out for retribution when the Pathet Lao took over the Laotian government in 1975, and tens of thousands fled to Thailand seeking political asylum. Thousands of these refugees have resettled in Western countries since the late 1970s, mostly the United States but also in Australia, France, French Guiana, Canada, and South America. Others have been returned to Laos under United Nations-sponsored repatriation programs. Around 8000 Hmong refugees remain in Thailand. In the early 1960s, the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Special Activities Division began to recruit, train and lead the indigenous Hmong people in Laos to fight against North Vietnamese Army intruders into Laos during the Vietnam War. It became a Special Guerrilla Unit led by General Vang Pao. About 60% of the Hmong men in Laos were assisted by the CIA to join fighting for the "Secret War" in Laos. The CIA used the Special Guerrilla Unit as the counter attack unit to block the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the main military supply route from the north to ...
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Air Strikes every 8 minutes for 9 years...Makes me so sad..They just drugged up their soldiers so they would be drones..made the people of Laos form the CIA's own private army...then tried to get all their 14 year old boys in the armies..when they refused, they then stopped giving food to the people..Thanks america...(sarcasm)
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Exclusive Lao war video in Xieng Khuang Province (northern Laos). The site of the Plain of Jars was the most heavily bombed and devastated by the war. www.laovideos.com
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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org The Pathet Lao (Lao ປະເທດລາວ, "Lao Country") was a communist political movement and organization in Laos, formed in the mid-20th century. The group was ultimately successful in assuming political power after the Laotian Civil War. The Pathet Lao were always closely associated with Vietnamese communists. During the civil war, it was effectively organized, equipped and even led by the army of North Vietnam. The Pathet Lao were the Laotian equivalent of North Vietnam's Viet Minh and Viet Cong, and Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. Eventually, the term became the generic name for Laotian communists. The political movement of the Pathet Lao was called first the Lao People's Party (1955--1972) and later the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (1972--present). Key Pathet Lao leaders include Prince Souphanouvong, Kaysone Phomvihane, Phoumi Vongvichit, Nouhak Phoumsavanh and Khamtay Siphandone. The organization under this name first appeared in 1950, when it was adopted by Lao forces under Prince Souphanouvong, who joined the Viet Minh's revolt against the colonial French authorities in Indochina during the First Indochina War. Prince Souphanouvong, who had spent seven years in Nha Trang during his sixteen years in Vietnam, met Ho Chi Minh, and acquired a Vietnamese wife while in Vietnam, solicited Viet Minh aid in founding a guerrilla force. In August, 1950, Souphanouvong had joined the Viet Minh in their headquarters north of Hanoi, Vietnam, and ...
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Low file size / medium quality version Promotional, development education and advocacy film shot in the very early days of mine action in the Lao PDR in south east Asia. This was actually the first documentary ever shot in Laos about the US bombing and its legacy of unexploded ordnance. Many have followed in its wake.
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Rice planting season is a nerve-wracking time for 49 year-old farmer Vongphone of Xieng Khouang province, in northern Lao. He was disabled five years ago when he accidentally set off an unexploded cluster bomb. Vongphone, who lost his left hand, is one of hundreds maimed or killed each year by explosive weapons - more than two million tonnes of which were dropped across the country by United States' aircraft between 1964 and 1973. "I'm still afraid," said Vongphone. "It's hard for us because when we farm there are unexploded bombs. But we have to farm, otherwise we have no income." The majority of the nearly one hundred million cluster sub-munitions that failed to explode fell on some of the country's poorest areas. More than 200000 hectares of prime agricultural land remains to be cleared. "We select about 22000 hectares among those 200000, which we can clear within 16-years," said Maligna Saignavongs, senior government advisor to the Government's National Regulatory Authority for Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)/Mine Action (NRA). The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has supported the national clearance operator, UXO Lao, in clearing around 24000 hectares since starting operations in 1996. A new 10-year government plan that focuses on clearing land in the 42 poorest at-risk districts is part of Lao PDR's commitment under the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. The first meeting of states parties under the Convention, held in the country's capital, Vientiane, in ...
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English Trailer www.beetz-brothers.de A film by Marc Eberle 75/52/45 min., NDR/arte/WDR Developed within the framework of Discovery Campus Masterschool 2003 Funded by the Filmförderung HHSH, Filmstiftung NRW, MEDIA NEW TALENTS and MEDIA BROADCAST The Vietnam War was the most intensely televised war ever. However, next door in neighboring Laos, the longest and largest air war in human history was underway, which eventually made Laos the most bombed country on earth. The Secret War was the largest operation ever conducted by the CIA, yet to this day, hardly anyone knows anything about it. Critics call it the biggest war crime of the Vietnam War era and point to striking similarities to the present conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; similarities that were tested and set in motion back in Laos in the 1960s. In The Most Secret Place On Earth, key players of the Secret War-- former CIA agents, American pilots, Laotian fighters and war reporters -- take us on a journey into the physical heart of the conflict: Top secret Long Cheng, where the CIA built its headquarters in 1962. It was from this base that the Secret War was largely planned and executed. As the war dragged on, Long Cheng became the busiest airbase in the world and a major center for the global opium and heroin trade. As we journey into Long Cheng for the first time -- the site has been off limits to the outside world since the end of the war in 1975 -- the film reconstructs the gripping story of the operation and ...
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Scattered groups of ethnic Hmong have hidden in the remote mountains of Laos for more than 30 years, afraid to come out. Many have not seen the modern world, and exist with little food, scavenging in the jungle. The CIA trained and funded many Hmong hill tribes in Laos from 1961 to 1973 to fight communism. When America withdrew from the conflict most Hmong were left alone to face the might of the invading North Vietnamese Army. The Royal Lao Government fell to the communists and many Hmong became outcasts in the country they fought to defend. This video was produced and edited by Paul Kwiatkowski, all photos are by Roger Arnold.
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I don't take credit for this. I found this at this man's site. www.angelfire.com It is from a series of Videos. www.angelfire.com
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The Laotian Civil War (1953--75) was a fight between the Communist Pathet Lao, often North Vietnamese of Lao ancestry, and the Royal Lao Government in which both the political rightists and leftists received heavy external support for a proxy war from the global Cold War superpowers. Among United States Central Intelligence Agency Special Activities Division US and Hmong veterans of the conflict, it is known as the Secret War.
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Like to know "why" the Hmong people are in America? Well, use your English skills and do your research. And here is part of the answer: During the Vietnam war, the US CIA secretly sent agents into Laos to secretly recruit and train local peasants to fight the expansion of communism in SEA. The French recommended Vang Pao, came to be known as Gen. Vang Pao to the US Backed by the support of the American CIA, Vang Pao and his Hmong guerilla army fought the NVA expansion into Laos along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. This music video is a remembrance to the Hmong who fought, suffered and fallen during the years of the "secret war" in Laos.
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To Watch Video: www.youtube.com © SommerFilms, 2007 (by Rebecca Sommer) All rights reserved. www.sommerfilms.org Brief history (Vietnam War) of the ethnic Hmong Lao people of Laos, narrated by Hmong leader General Vang Pao, and Mr. Vang from the LHRC. In the 75 minute-long awareness-raising documentary "Hunted Like Animals", the refugees who fled from Laos to Thailand explain what the military inside of Laos did to them, while they were running and hiding, half starved, from the attacks by the soldiers ~ over 30 years after the Vietnam War ended. Some footage in "Hunted Like Animals" was filmed by the Hmong-in-hiding themselves- in the mountainous conflict areas of Laos (2002-2006). (Cameras were smuggled in, and tapes out of the conflict area by Fact Finding Commission.) Thousands of Hmong Lao fled from Laos to Thailand - starting 2004- to escape increasing military attacks inside of Laos, and settled in Thailand's Ban Huay Nam Khao Refugee Camp. Over 1400 DVD of HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS were disseminated to governments, UN system and NGOs end of 2006 and 2007. Even so diplomats and UN officials has no access to the people-in-hiding inside of Laos, or to the refugees in Thailand's refugee camp - HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS brings the voices of the desperate Hmong Lao directly to them. The refugees want the world to know what they have endured, and speak on behalf of many thousands of Hmong left behind -- who are still trapped inside of remote mountainous jungle areas, chased ...
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