Les Hmongs sont un peuple qui a soutenu les français puis les américains pendant la guerre d’Indochine puis du Vietnam.
C’est la CIA qui les a contacté pour venir à l’aide des soldats américains.
Une fois les soldats occidentaux partis, ils se sont retrouvés seuls face au pouvoir communiste qui a commencé une opération pour les éliminer.
Aujourd’hui cela fait plus de 40 ans qu’ils sont chassés. Ils se sont réfugiés dans les colines du Laos pour se cacher. Mais dans des conditions humanitaires très déplorables.
On ne sait pas encore combien il y a de survivants. En 1990 ils étaient 30 000, en 2005, ils étaient plus que 8000. Aujourd’hui, peut-être un millier.
Left, Mee Moua Vang, with family infront of their make shift home, near Vang Vieng, Laos, June 28, 2006. Her message to the world, « My husband and two older daughters were killed by the communist while foraging for food. My daughter Blee was attacked by the communist where her guts were sticking out and I was unable to help her so she died. I miss her very much. I am desperately suffering here with no help. I ask you to come in and save us. Bring us food. »
**EXCLUSIVE, no tabloids without permission**
These pictures are from a group of Hmong people who report an attack against them April 6, 2006 by Lao and Vietnamese military forces. 26 people perished, 5 were injured, and 5 babies died shortly after because their dead mothers could not breast-feed them. Only one adult male was killed, the other 25 victims were women and children (17 children). The Lao Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says this is a fabrication, an investigation has been completed, and there was no attack. The Hmong group says no officials have interviewed witnesses or visited the crime scene, a point the Lao Spokesman did not deny.
The Hmong people in these pictures have been hiding in the remote mountains of Laos for more than 30 years, afraid to come out. At least 12,000 are estimated to exist. Since 1975, under the communists, thousands of reports evidence the Hmong have suffered frequent persecution, torture, mass executions, imprisonment, and possible chemical weapons attacks. Reports of these atrocities continue to this day. The Lao Government generally denies the jungle people exist or that any of this is happening. The Hmong group leader, Blia Shoua Her, says they want peace, and are just civilians defending their families hoping to surrender to the UN.
A l’origine ils étaient contre la politique du Pathet Lao (le pouvoir communiste encore en place au Laos), qui promet la collectivisation et le sédentarisme.
Par contre les Hmong, en tant que peuple non résistants sont encore entre 4 et 5 millions au Laos.
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