The HMONG Diaspora and the Struggle for an Identity

Abstract

During a United Nations (UN) sponsored meeting between non-governmental organizations (NGO) and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination held in February 2012, representatives alluded to continued violence towards the Hmong. The Congress of World Hmong People, a non-profit NGO that advocates Hmong economic, social, and cultural rights, vehemently stressed that massacres and murders of indigenous Hmong are still occurring in the Xaysombun Administrative Zone territory within the Phou Bia Mountains in northern Laos.1 Poisonous chemical agents had been used against Hmong people, including children, leading to severe health consequences for the population. The goal of those attacks, led by the Laos Army and Vietnamese Military battalions was to wipe out the Hmong in the region completely by 2015. 2

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2012
Accession Number
AD1023220

Entities

People

  • Bryan K. Wong

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Department Of State
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Governments
  • Language
  • Law
  • Minority Groups
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Political Systems
  • Racial Discrimination
  • Societies
  • Southeast Asia
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Vietnam War
  • Warfare

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  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
  • Military Science
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.