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BANGKOK, Thailand -

Thailand will return some 8,000 ethnic Hmong refugees to Laos despite their claims that they face persecution in their homeland, the Thai prime minister said Monday.


Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont asserted that most of the refugees did not have legitimate asylum claims, but said an unspecified third country would be asked to monitor their repatriation to assure they were not abused.

Members of Laos' Hmong minority served in a CIA-backed guerrilla army that fought against Lao communists in the 1960s and 1970s. The refugees claim that as a result they face political persecution and possible harm in communist Laos.


Thirteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a recent letter to Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej asking him to stop the forcible repatriation of the Hmong.


Human rights groups and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees also have expressed concern for the Hmong, in large part because the government of Laos does not allow free monitoring of their condition.

Surayud said the matter had been discussed with Laos and "we will make sure representatives from a third country are present to prevent human rights abuse as we send them back."


Surayud said the country overseeing the repatriations would likely be a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, to which both Thailand and Laos belong. He did not say when the repatriation might occur.


Most of the refugees are at an unofficial refugee camp in the northern Thai province of Phetchabun,


"If they entered the country illegally, then it is an issue that has to be taken care of, since there is no fighting going on now in our neighboring country," Surayud told reporters.


More than 300,000 Laotians, mostly Hmong, are known to have fled to Thailand since the communist takeover in 1975. Most were either repatriated to Laos or resettled in other countries, most in the United States.


In 2005, the U.S. allowed 15,000 Lao Hmong to immigrate from Thailand, but officials have said no more will be accepted.


Surayud said that unless the Hmong were sent back, it would be a "never-ending problem. ... The situation in Laos ended since 1975. It's now 2007. If we don't deal with this problem, we will have to be home to more illegal immigrants. It is a burden in every way for us."

Source: www.forbes.com



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Oh ! poor people, they flee their peaceful home for infernal life !

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lao goverment should take them back and give them an opportunity. what ever past . the women and the children is not the facted cost. is the man and there leader(vangpao). is the root cost..... 

is any body agree with me...?



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Hmong refugee in foreign countries encouraged them to anti Lao government and left their peaceful homes. They have to pay 20,000Bath for one person for transportation to Thailand.

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I agree with you on every points but how the government could deal with so many people in a very short a time but Hmong are hardworking people, if the governemt provides sufficient food and land at the very start of resettlement, I don`t think that it will take more than six months or one year for these people to be selfsufficient

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This is a change for the LPRP to show to the world that they are in fact NOT harming every Hmong, and commiting Genocide. If the Lao government can take them back, give them peace and work along side them, then the world will realise that the suppose Genocide of the Hmong is a lie and that its only a fight against "rebels".

I am hoping so hard that the LPRP will realise this is a huge opportunity to show the International Community something different than the rumors they've been hearing, and even seeing.

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Yes I agree with the person above, all of us have to understand that in any war or conflict there will be refugees, for a reason or other, as we see now in Iraq there are million iraq people becoming refugees inside the country or in neighbouring countries such as Iran etc. But now the Hmong of Lao also must understand they should not be used by other people their own people or any to agaisnt LAO for no reason. They should not listen to rubbish and betrade their own country.
Believe if an australian worked for a foreign country to agaisnt Australia, then he will be regarded or considered as a TRAITOR to Australia, that 100% according to australian Media. The best thing for Lao's government to do is to get those Hmong people going back their own villages or home towns first, give them land and with the help of United Nation for refugees, built houses for them and ask them to live like any other Lao's citizen. There are Hmong people in Sapa Vietnam very famous place for tourists, in China in Thailand as well as in Lao as i have seen in Vientiane, Hmong people have business, shops right in the centre of Vientiane. So I can't see why the return of Hmong from Thailand unable to fit in with Lao society. I do not see any problem.

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The proverb "Fang khaom Meo boleo chaktheua" listen to Meo word of mouth never an end.

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Yes, I know that Lao government always welcome all Lao Hmong people to come back to Laos. But the fact is these Hmong people don't want to go back. They want to go to third contries. In short, they want to follow your suit, like you now live Australia, America and so on. In fact, these Hmong people are not refugees, but illegal imigrants who seek a better life like you. They don't want to live in Laos any more because they cannot produce heroin. They don't want to work as farmers that's a big problem. As far as I know Lao government gives them lots of priorities compared to other Lao people minorities. 
On the another hand there are some Vang pao servants trying to lure them to go to Thailand and later on will go to USA. These people were also used by anti-Lao government forces. That's why this issue has been lasting never end.    

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