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Los últimos de Vietnam | Pablo L.Orosa | ctxt.es

www.ctxt.es/ es/ 20150319/ politica/ 601/ Los-%C3%BAltimos-de-Vietnam-Internacional.htm

18 Mar 2015 ... En 2009 fue obligado a volver a Laos, donde los Chao Fa siguen siendo perseguidos. ... "Es el territorio de los Hmong donde casi nadie puede entrar. ... en contra del Gobierno" afirma Philip Smith, director del Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA). .... Revista .
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  1. Asian Correspondent   Jan 26, 2015 
    The Laos government is moving backward on human rights, says Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia Division.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

               Christians Tortured, Killed in Communist-Controlled Laos:- Global Persecution...

                        Washington Free Beacon News, January 9, 2015
 
                        Christians in the communist state of Laos were arrested, tortured, and killed
                        over the Christmas holiday in the latest sign of more
                        repressive conditions for Christians worldwide.
 
                        freebeacon.com/national-security/christians-tortured-kil...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

            Silent Night in Laos - WSJ

 
               Silent Night in Laos
 
              The Wall Street Journal
              January 8, 2015
 
              The communist government in Laos uses the holiday season to pursue a violent
              crackdown on    Christians of the Hmong ethnic minority,
              says an editorial in The Wall Street Journal.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  1. Laos' Holiday Crackdown | The Diplomat

    www.thediplomat.com/2015/01/laos-holiday-crackdown/

    Jan 6, 2015 , The Diplomat,   This Christmas, the Laos government – already facing the prospect of ... Most Hmong are Christians and the killjoys in Vientiane decided to ban Christmas. ... or have simply disappeared,” said Philip Smith, Executive Director ...

 

 

 

 

 

             Still No Christmas in Laos - Crossmap Christian News | World

          Crossmap Christian News, December 28, 2014
 
          On Christmas Day, 2014, the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) has raised concern   about            the increased persecution of minority Christian, Animist and independent Buddhist
           believers in Laos at the hands of military and security forces of Laos and the Socialist
           Republic of Vietnam.
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Laos: Coalition Opposes U.S. Taxpayers’ Funding of Bomb Removal From Vietnam War

The Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) and a coalition of Lao and Hmong non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are opposing a controversial multi-million dollar U.S. Department of State project to remove unexploded Vietnam War-era ordnance and bombs from Laos.

In opposition to the project, which the State Department is presently promoting with a U.S. tour, the NGOs are citing increased human rights abuses as well as religious and minority persecution in Laos. The organizations are also raising concerns about the recent arrest and abduction of Laotian civic activist Sombath Somphone, widespread government corruption in Laos and illegal logging by Lao and Vietnamese military-owned companies.

 
 
 
 
 

US Says Laos Blocking Investigation Into Disappearance of 3 Men

New York Times -  March 19, 2013
By THOMAS FULLER. Published: March 19, 2013. BANGKOK — The American ambassador to Laos said Tuesday that Laotian authorities had blocked a United States investigation into the disappearance of two citizens and a resident of the United States.
 
 
 
 

Laos stonewalls on disappearances

Bangkok Post - ‎March 18, 2013  
The case of the three Hmong-Americans missing in southern Laos has been linked to the equally mysterious disappearance of civic activist Sombath Somphone, whose case also has been stonewalled by the entire Lao government and security apparatus.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Laos must abide by European resolution

The Nation, Bangkok, Thailand, February 15, 2013 (Opinion Editorial)

We are encouraged that the terrible plight of Sombath, who [it is alleged] was extrajudicially abducted and "disappeared" in December, was discussed at the highest levels of a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on February 7. The result was the unanimous and historic passage by the parliament...

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  1. Laos Officials Criticized for Obstructing Investigation

    The Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), United Lao for Democracy and Human Rights (ULDHR), the Lao Human Rights Council (LHRC), the United League for Democracy in Laos, Inc. (ULDL), the Laos Institute for Democracy (LIFD), and a coalition of ...

    Scoop.co.nz, Scoop Independent News, Auckland, New Zealand,  Mar 18, 2013 23:44PM UTC
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Business Journal, California, February 8, 2013
 
According to the Center for Public Policy Analysis, the Lao Veterans of America Institute has led a nationwide effort to grant burial honors to Lao and Hmong veterans ...
www.thebusinessjournal.com/news/government-and-politics/..
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Scoop Independent News,Auckland, New Zealand, February 7, 2013
Scoop.co.nz - Feb 07 03:05pm
 
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Representative Jim Costa (D-California), and a bipartisan coalition in the U.S. Congress,...
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Laos Human Rights Advocate Dies

Scoop News, New Zealand,
 
November 25, 2011, Washington, D.C. , and Vientiane, Laos,
WO1111/S00750 - Center for Public Policy Analysis - Saturday, 26 November 2011, 3:22 PM

Khampet Moukdarath, a human rights advocate for the people of Laos, and a survivor of the Lao gulag and reeducation system, died on November 6, 2011, in the Washington, D.C.-metropolitan area. He was honored at recent events in Washington, D.C., by the Laotian-American community, the United League for Democracy in Laos, Inc. (ULDL), United Lao for Human Rights and Democracy (ULHRD), Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) and others.

“Because of his devotion to his Buddhist faith and his love of the nation of Laos, Colonel Khampet Moukdarath suffered from torture and abuse in reeducation camps in Laos for over 13 long years following the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) invasion of the Royal Kingdom of Laos and the Pathet Lao communist guerilla takeover,” said Bounthanh Rathigna, President of the United League for Democracy in Laos, Inc.

 
 
 
 
 
  1. Laos: Rights Groups Urge Release of Student Protestors
    Scoop News, New Zealand, October 27, 2011, In solemn memory of the 12th anniversary of peaceful student demonstrations in Vientiane, Laos, a coalition of non-governmental organizations is calling for the immediate release of Lao student leaders who continue to be imprisoned in harsh conditions, without charge, for over a decade.
    Scoop.co.nz - Oct 27 03:47pm

  1. Laos, Hmong Veterans of Vietnam War Fight For Burial Honors
    Scoop News, Auckland, New Zealand, October 22, 2011, Laos, Hmong Veterans of Vietnam War Fight For Burial Honors Washington, D.C. and Fresno, California, October 21, 2011 Center for Public Policy Analysis
    Scoop.co.nz - Oct 22 09:18pm
 
 
 

Will Thailand's Army Intervene To Halt Red-Shirt Victory? | Scoop News

Scoop News, Auckland, New Zealand, July 4, 2011

... Will Thailand's Army Intervene To Halt Red-Shirt Victory? ... will become Thailand's first female prime minister,” said Philip Smith, ...Will Thailand’s Army Eventually Intervene To Halt Yingluck, Red-Shirt Victory?

Bangkok, Thailand and Washington, D.C., July 3, 2011 - With polls closing in Thailand today, concerns have been raised by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Public Policy Analysis that elements of the Royal Thai Army may militarily intervene in the post-election aftermath of Thailand’s recent election where the Pheu Thai Party is predicted to sweep control of a majority of seats in Parliament and potentially usher in Thailand’s first female Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra.

“There are concerns that elements of the Royal Thai Army may intervene militarily, at some point down the road, in the post-election aftermath of today’s elections, in opposition to a majority victory by Pheu Thai Party candidates in Parliament, or the potential that Yingluck Shinawatra will become Thailand’s first female prime minister,” said Philip Smith, Executive Director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) in Washington, D.C., a public policy research organization.

 
 
 
 
 

Canada National Day, Royals' Visit, Commemorated

Scoop News, Auckland, New Zealand, Monday, July 4, 2011,  The Center for Public Policy Analysis marked Canada’s 144th National Day, and the visit
WO1107/S00071 - Centre for Public Policy Analysis - 

The Center for Public Policy Analysis marked Canada’s 144th National Day, and the visit of the United Kingdom’s Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, at ceremonies and events in Ottawa and Toronto held today.

“We are humbled and pleased to be here to join the Canadian people in celebration of the 144th anniversary of Canada’s independence and to welcome Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge,” said Philip Smith, Executive Director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA). http://www.centerforpublicpolicyanalysis.org

“The Canadian people have a special affection for the newlyweds and Royal Family,” Smith observed. “The timing of their visit to Canada could not have been better, more meaningful and symbolic.”

“The enduring importance of the Atlantic alliance, and the leadership role of the United Kingdom and Canada, is in many ways symbolized by the visit of Price William and Catherine to Ottawa today,” Smith stated.

“As Canadian armed forces celebrate their final National Day in Kandahar, Afghanistan, we are reminded of Canada’s important leadership role with the United Kingdom and other allies in support of international security, peacekeeping and the ongoing war on terrorism,” Smith concluded.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A new era of abuse in Southeast Asia

Star Tribune , Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 26, 2011, Article by: PHILIP SMITH... many of the Hmong now facing persecution are Catholics, Protestants or Animist believers who ...

Religious persecution and human- rights violations continue for many in Southeast Asia, especially the ethnic Hmong minority of Vietnam and Laos, who are now suffering from egregious abuses.

After deploying the military and sealing off the area to journalists last month, Vietnam People's Army (VPA) special forces have pursued ethnic Hmong involved in mass protests.

 Hmong demonstrators, including many honoring the beatification of Pope John Paul II last month in Vietnam's largest Catholic diocese, Hung Hoa, have fled a violent army crackdown that continues in northeastern Vietnam's Dien Bien Province, along the border with Laos.

Hmong-Americans, and other Southeast Asians in the Twin Cities...

www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/124518218.html
 
 
 
 

Hmong: Reports Indicate No Halt to Hanoi's Suppression

UNPO - ‎May 23, 2011‎, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), The Hague, Netherlands
... sorties against ethnic Hmong villagers and protesters fleeing into the rugged interior of Dien Bien province and across the border into Laos, according to the Center for Public Policy Analysis and Hmong and Vietnamese sources in Vietnam and Laos. ...
 
 
Vietnam, Laos:  Attack Helicopters Unleash Death on Hmong

Scoop News, New Zealand, May 21, 2011
... and bombing sorties against the Hmong people fleeing Vietnam's military crackdown in the Dien Bien province area,” said Philip Smith, ...
www.scoop.co.nz/ stories/ WO1105/ S00509/ vietnam-laos-attack-helicopters-unleashed-death-on-hmong.htm
 
 

Intellasia, May 18, 2011 ... "Many of our Hmong and Vietnamese sources in Dien Bien province and in the ... injustice and Stalinist authoritarianism," Smith commented. ...
www.intellasia.net/news/articles/society/111324888.shtml

 
 
Vietnam: 14 Die as Troops Converge On Hmong 
 Canada Free Press, May 18, 2011
May 18, 2011 ... “The mass demonstration for reform in Vietnam's Dien Bien province ... including the strategic Route 6 and Route 42,” said Philip Smith, ...
www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/36654
 
 

Vietnam Forces Kill 72 Hmong, Hundreds Arrested and Flee
VietCatholic News, VietCatholic  May 17, 2011 ...
 
Smith continued: “Communist officials in Hanoi, and senior Vietnamese ... Philip Blair. 5/7/2011. Press Release: Vietnam, Laos Uprising: 28 ...
www.vietcatholic.net/News/Html/90031.htm
 

Vietnam Forces Kill 72 Hmong, Hundreds Arrested and Flee

Online PR News  - ‎May 17, 2011‎
The Vietnamese People's Army has killed at least 72 Hmong Christian and animist religious believers, many of them mainstream Catholic and orthodox Protestant Christians, according to ...
 

Nine Hmong Catholics Killed During Mass Arrests in Vietnam

Scoop News, Auckland, New Zealand, Scoop.co.nz  - ‎May 16, 2011‎
... and arrested over 2400 ethnic Hmong citizens of Vietnam, according to the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) and Hmong and Laotian non-governmental organizations with sources inside the region that borders of Laos and Northern Vietnam. ...
 

Dozens Reported Killed in Hmong Protest

America Magazine  - ‎May 13, 2011‎
... large-scale protest for land rights and religious freedom by Hmong. Washington's Center for Public Policy Analysis and the VietCatholic News Service report that as many as 63 people were killed in days of violence in Dien Bien Province. ...
 

Christians killed in Dien Bien Phu protests

CathNews India - ‎CathNews - May 9, 2011‎
All of these people were independent Catholic and Protestant Christian believers,” said Philip Smith, Executive Director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) in Washington, DC “Additionally, eleven independent Viet-Hmong animist believers
 

Vietnam: 14 Die as Troops Converge On Hmong

‎Scoop News, Auckland, New Zealand, May 9, 2011‎
... according to the Center for Public Policy Analysis, Hmong non-governmental organizations, and Hmong, Vietnamese and Laotian sources in Dien Bien province, and along the Vietnam- Laos border, where the demonstrations began over a week ago. ...
 
 
 

Vietnam Crackdown: More Hmong Killed As Army Deploys

Vietnam Crackdown: More Hmong Killed As Army Deploys

May 7, 2011, Washington, D.C., Vientiane, Laos and Bangkok Thailand

More Hmong protesters have been killed or arrested in Dien Bien province today as Vietnam deploys additional army units and thousands of soldiers and police to seek to contain mass demonstrations and the spread of discontent with the policies of the government in Hanoi, and local communist party officials. Hundreds of additional ethnic Hmong are missing or have disappeared, many have been arrested and loaded onto military trucks where they are being sent to unknown locations in Vietnam or Laos..

 

 

 

 

UCA NEWS, 05-09-2011   Dozens of demonstrating Hmong Christians have been killed by Vietnamese and ... were independent Catholic and Protestant Christian believers,” said Philip Smith ...
www.ucanews.com/2011/05/09/christians-killed-in-dien

 

 

 

Reports: Vietnam Conducts Deadly Crackdown on Ethnic Hmong

Voice of America - ‎Voice of America (VOA), News, English Language Service,
May 9, 2011‎
Two US-based advocacy groups say Vietnamese security forces are continuing a deadly crackdown on thousands of ethnic Hmong Christians along the border with Laos. The Washington-based Center for Public Policy Analysis and the group Hmong Advance say ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bloodshed Crackdown Against Hmong in Dien Bien

VietCatholic News , May 8, 2011
, ... independent Catholic and Protestant Christian believers,” said Philip Smith, ... Mùa A Sơn, chairman of the Dien Bien Province, blamed the incident for ... “ Companies owned by Armed forces Chief of Staff of Vietnam, General Tran ...
www.vietcatholic.net/News/Html/89754.htm
 
 
 
 
 

  Vietnam Crackdown: More Hmong Killed As Army Deploys

 

Scoop News, New Zealand, Scoop.co.nz  - ‎May 7, 2011
Casualties continue to mount with a total of 49 now know dead since the crackdown by Vietnam's army.  More Hmong demonstrators have also disappeared at the hands of Vietnamese security forces as Hanoi seeks to seal the remote, mountainous border area, ...
 
 
 
 

   US Probes Reports of Deaths After Hmong Protests in Vietnam

Bloomberg News, Bloomberg - ‎May 6, 2011‎
“Significant numbers of Vietnam People's Army troops from Hanoi, and security forces from Laos, have been deployed for special military operations directed against the Hmong minority people,” Philip Smith, the executive director of the US ...
 
 
 
 

   Ethnic Hmong hold mass protest in Vietnam

German Press Agency , DPA, Deutsche Presse Agentur - ‎ May 6, 2011‎
Hanoi - Thousands of ethnic Hmong people were protesting Friday in northern Vietnam, demanding the establishment of an 'autonomous region,' as the government dispatched troops to the region, sources said. The demonstration began April 30 when around ...
 
 
 
 
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Deutsche Welle, Germany's The World, May 6, 2011
Vietnam has deployed troops to contain a rare protest by ethnic Hmong Christians who are calling for an "independent kingdom" in a remote province near Laos and China. As many as 7,000 people in the far-flung mountains of Dien Bien Province, near the …Deutsche Welle · 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  US quizzes Vietnam about Hmong protest 'deaths'

MSN News - MSN Philippines News - ‎May 6, 2011‎
The US embassy in Hanoi said Friday that it had asked Vietnam to clarify unconfirmed reports of deaths at a rare ethnic Hmong protest, calling on all sides to avoid violence. Thousands of Hmong have gathered in northwest Dien Bien province in recent ...
 
 
 
 
 

Vietnam People's Army Attacks Peaceful Hmong Demonstrators

Online PR News , ‎May 5, 2011‎
"The impoverished Viet-Hmong people of Dien Bien in Vietnam and northern Laos are merely seeking relief from religious, economic and political oppression under the communist regime in Hanoi, as well as more basic human rights and fundamental liberty ..
 
 
 
 
 

 Vietnam troops 'use force' at rare Hmong protest

Bangkok Post, Bangkok, Thailand , Bangkok Post - ‎May 5, 2011‎
Vietnamese soldiers clashed with ethnic Hmong after thousands staged a rare protest in a remote mountain area calling for greater autonomy and religious freedom, a military source said Thursday. Soldiers march in front of the mausoleum of late ...
 
 
 
 
 

  Vietnam, Laos Uprising: 28 Hmong Protesters Killed

Scoop News, New Zealand, Scoop.co.nz  - ‎May 5, 2011‎
Thousands of Viet-Hmong minority political and religious dissidents along the Laos - Vietnam border, who are staging mass protests demanding religious freedom and land reforms from the communist regime in Hanoi, have been attacked by Vietnam People's ...
 
 

Laos, Obama Urged By Rights Groups, Hmong, to Free 3 Americans from Minnesota

Investors Business Daily, April 24, 2011

WASHINGTON & MINNEAPOLIS & ST. PAUL, Minn., Apr 23, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- A coalition of Laotian and Hmong non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), have joined the families of three …Investors Business Daily · 1 day ago

 

 

 

 

LAOS, U.S. President Barack Obama Urged by Human Rights Groups to Release Lao Hmong Americans from St. Paul -  OBAMA URGED BY RIGHTS GROUPS HMONG TO FREE 3 AMERICANS :: AD ...

AD HOC NEWS, Berlin , Germany , April 23. Apr. 2011 ... A coalition of Laotian and Hmong non governmental organizations NGOs and the Center for Public Policy Analysis CPPA have joined the families ...
www.ad-hoc-news.de/ laos-obama-urged-by-rights-groups-hmong-to-free-3--/ de/ News/ 22091849

 

 

 

Laos Communist Regime, Barack Obama Urged By Rights Groups, Hmong, to Free 3 Americans ...
Bradenton News, Florida, Apr 23, 2011 ...

A coalition of Laotian and Hmong non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), have joined the ...
www.bradenton.com/ 2011/ 04/ 23/ 3137479/ laos-obama-urged-by-rights-groups.html

 

 

 

Laos, Obama Urged By Rights Groups, Hmong, to Free 3 Americans - CNBC
CNBC News, April 23, 2011,

Apr 23, 2011 ... Laos (LPDR), President Barack Obama Urged By Rights Groups, Hmong, to Free 3 Americans from Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, including Mr. Hakit Yang

www.cnbc.com/id/42732762

 

 


 

Reuters News, April 23, 2011,

Laos, Obama Urged By Rights Groups, Hmong, to Free 3 Americans. A coalition of Laotian and Hmong non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the Center ...
mobile.reuters.com/ article/ companyNewsAndPR/ idUS41523+23-Apr-2011+BW20110423?feedType=RSS &feedName=companyNewsAndPR

 

 

 

Laos Military, U.S. President Obama Urged to Release St. Paul, Minneapolis, American Citizens

Apr 23, 2011 ... Laos, Obama Urged By Rights Groups, Hmong, to Free 3 Americans 5:10PM UTC. Reuters News, April 23, 2011,
www.reuters.com/resources/archive/us/20110423.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/23/idUS41523+23-Apr-2011+BW20110423

 


 

  
Boston Globe, April 23, 2011,  U.S. Laotian and Hmong organizations have appealed to the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (LPDR) and U.S. President Barack Obama to release Hakit Yang and Hmong-American citizens being imprisoned in Laos.
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News Blaze News,  04 / 23/2011 
A coalition of Laotian and Hmong non-governmental organizations , and the Center for Public Policy Analysis , have joined the families of three Hmong-Americans
www.newsblaze.com/story/2011042314102700001.bw/topstory.html
 
 
 CBS News,April 23, 2011
In August 2007, for unknown reasons, Lao People's Army (LPA) troops and secret police arrested the three Americans: Mr. Hakit Yang, 24; Mr. Congshineng Yang, 34; and Mr. Trillion Yunhaison, 44. 

The Hmong-Americans remain imprisoned in Laos' Sam Neua province by LPA troops and secret police. The three are being held without charges being filed, or due process, according to the Foreign Prisoners Support Service (FPSS), the CPPA, human rights organizations, family members and others.

Mrs. Sheng Xiong, a spokeswoman for the families, and Philip Smith of the CPPA, spoke to Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) about the case.

“I just wish the Lao government would be upfront ...,” Xiong told MPR.

 

 

Laos: Appeal for Release of 3 Hmong-Americans

Scoop News, New Zealand, April 21, 2011,
Washington, D.C., Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, April 21, 2011
Center for Public Policy Analysis info@centerforpublicpolicyanalysis.org
Scoop.co.nz - Apr 21 03:18pm
The Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) and a coalition of Laotian and Hmong non-governmental organizations have joined the Minnesota families of three Hmong-Americans in issuing an appeal for the release of their relatives being held in Laos for over three years by military and communist party officials. The appeal was issued from Washington, D.C., and the Twin Cities of Minnesota, to the Lao government and U.S. President Barack Obama to request that they work at a higher diplomatic level, with urgent priority, to release three Hmong-American citizens arrested and currently imprisoned in Laos. 
The three jailed Americans, of ethnic Hmong descent from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, have been imprisoned in Laos for over three years-- according to eye-witness sources, human rights groups, prisoner support organizations, and humanitarian activists, including Australian author and humanitarian advocate Kay Danes.
 
 
 
 
Apr 16, 2011 ... Christian persecution and religious freedom violations have continued to expand and spread to key provinces in Laos, according to the Center ...
www.scoop.co.nz/ stories/ WO1104/ S00423/ laos-vietnam-troops-execute-4-hmong-christians.htm
 
 
 
 

Laos, Vietnam troops kill four Hmong Christians: NGO

MSN News Malaysia -- MSN Malaysia News - ‎Apr 15, 2011‎
CPPA executive director Philip Smith denounced what he called a "tragic and major upswing" in religious persecution in Laos at the hands of Vietnamese and Laotian military and Communist Party officials over the past year. "In a coordinated and expanded ...


Scoop News, New Zealand, Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Scoop News, New Zealand, Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 12:50 pm Press Release: Center for Public Policy Analysis. Concerns Raised As Burma Targets Refugees in Thailand, ASEAN Parliament. April 11, 2011, Washington, DC & Bangkok, Thailand Center for Public Policy Analysis. The Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) has issued
www.scoop.co.nz/ stories/ WO1104/ S00362/ concerns-raised-as-burma-targets-refugees-in-thailand.htm

CNBC News,  Mar 25, 2011 ... The Center for Public Policy Analysis has been repeatedly recognized for its groundbreaking work on key domestic and foreign policy issues ...
classic.cnbc.com/id/42268503

 
... Laos, Hmong Crisis: Rights Groups Make International Appeal. ... rights and religious freedom violations against the Lao Hmong refugees and ...
www.nationalpost.com/Laos+Hmong+Crisis+Rights+Groups+Make+International+Appeal/.../story.html - Canada
 
 
 

Laos, Hmong Crisis: Rights Groups Make International Appeal ...

Investors Business Daily, March 16, 2011,
Laos, Hmong Crisis: Rights Groups Make International Appeal. Posted 11:54 PM ET. VIENTIANE, Laos & WASHINGTON, Mar 16, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- A coalition ...
www.investors.com/.../Laos-Hmong-Crisis-Rights-Groups-Make-International-Appeal.aspx
 
 
 
 
Laotian, Hmong Crisis: Rights Groups Make Appeal Prior to Party Congress 
American Banking & Markets News, March 16, 2011, New York, New York ,
The Laos, Hmong Crisis: Pro-Democracy, Human Rights and Religious Freedom Groups Make International Appeal Prior to Communist Party Congress in Laos.
Mar. 16, 2011 -- A coalition of Laotian and Hmong organizations have issued a joint.
www.americanbankingnews.com/ 2011/ 03/ 16/ laos-hmong-crisis-rights-groups-make-international-appeal/
 
 
 
 
 
 Laos, Hmong Human Rights Crisis: Groups Make 
Boston Globe , Boston , Mass . , March 16 , 2011,
A coalition of Laotian and Hmong organizations have issued a joint statement with the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) urging Laos to release political and religious dissidents, and jailed American citizens, prior to an upcoming communist party congress.

The international appeal also urges Laos to halt illegal logging by Vietnam People's Army-owned companies and release thousands of Lao Hmong refugees forcibly repatriated from Thailand.  The communist party congress of the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (LPDR) is being held from March 17-21.

“There needs to be transparency by the Lao communist government and a voice for the voiceless, suffering people of Laos,” said Khampoua Naovarangsy an internet blogger for the Laos Institute for Democracy (LIFD).

 

 

Ad Hoc News, Berlin, Germany, March 17, 2011
A coalition of Laotian and Hmong organizations have issued a joint statement with the Center for Public Policy Analysis CPPA urging Laos to release ...www.ad-hoc-news.de 
 
 
 

 


Star Tribune, Minneapolis , Minnesota, Mar 7, 2011 ... Vang Pao in California symbolizes why Lao Hmong veterans who served alongside U.S. military and clandestine forces in the "U.S. Secret Army" ...
www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/117551498.html
 
 
 
 
 
Scoop News, New Zealaind, February 17, 2011
The Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) marked events and ceremonies in Fresno, California, that were recently concluded honoring Major General Vang Pao. General ...
www.scoop.co.nz/ stories/ WO1102/ S00609/ vietnam-laos-nationalist-fighter-honored-by-lao-hmong.htm
 
 
 
 
 

ABS-CBN, Manila , Philippines , Feb 11, 2011 ... MANILA, Philippines - A United States-based think tank believes the Philippine ... including 32 journalists, in Mindanao, in November 2009 "is an act of ... The Center for Public Policy Analysis is a Washington, ...
www.abs-cbnnews.com/ nation/ 02/ 11/ 11/ us-think-tank-massacre-victims-kin-need-counseling 
 
 

 
 
 
Scoop News, New Zealaind, February 11, 2011
Friday, 11 February 2011, Center for Public Policy Analysis. Philippines Urged To Assist Families of Slain Journalists During Trial. Washington, DC, and Manila, Philippines, February 11, 2011 CPPA. Center for Public Policy Analysis. Citing the unprecedented murder of journali
www.scoop.co.nz/ stories/ WO1102/ S00381/ philippines-urged-to-assist-families-of-slain-journalists.htm
 
 
 
 
 
January 28, 2011, Scoop News, New Zealand
e Washington, D.C.-based Center for Public Policy Analysis is calling on Egyptian President Mubarak, and his public security and military forces, to immediately and unconditionally restore unfettered internet use to the people of Egypt and allow independent journalists access to the developing crisis in the country.
 
 

Once a foe of Saddam, Iraqi cab driver now branded a terrorist

 


Salt Lake Tribune, Utah, Feb 3, 2011 12:50PM

The ground war was about to begin.

It was Feb. 15, 1991, and U.S. troops were poised at Iraq’s southern border. Offering “another way for the bloodshed to stop,” then-President George H.W. Bush took to the Voice of America airwaves, calling on Iraqis to “take matters into their own hands …

 

 

 

A Tree Falls in Laos - Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from...

Asia Times Online - Oct 5, 2010
The state of Laos forests is increasingly relevant to discussions on global ... Philip Smith executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis in ... 
 
 
 

MEDIA NEWSWIRE , webnewswire.com , August 7, 2010,   "Clearly, US Congressman Jim Costa's bipartisan leadership, along with his colleagues in the US Congress, in support of the Lao and Hmong veterans and their families across America, gives hope and dignity to the plight of the Lao and Hmong community and the veterans who seek to be buried wi
www.medianews-wire.com/
 

Laos Communiqué Urges Release of Jailed Americans, Dissident...

Reuters - Jul 19, 2010
BANGKOK & WASHINGTON Business Wire The Center for Public Policy AnalysisCPPA the ... other HmongAmericans from St Paul Minnesota stated Philip Smith Director ...
 
 

 Laos Visit Sparks Talk Of Release Of Dissidents | Scoop News

‎Scoop News, New Zealand Scoop.co.nz - Jul 17, 2010
The Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), the United League for Democracy in ... said Philip Smith, Executive Director of the Center for Public Policy ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bostob Globe, July 19, 2010
The Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), the United League for Democracy in Laos (ULDL) and a coalition of Lao and Hmong non-governmental organizations have released a twelve-point joint communiqué today in Bangkok, Thailand. The joint statement outlines opposition to the visit of Lao Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith to the United States as well as recent military actions by the Lao government. The communiqué was also released on Friday in Washington, D.C. and New York.

Thongloun Sisoulith also serves as deputy prime minister for the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (LPDR), a one-party, authoritarian regime closely allied with the military junta in Burma and Stalinist North Korea. The senior-level Lao Communist party official recently met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. An Open Skies Agreement was concluded to promote tourism.

 

 

 

Scoop News, New Zealand, May 11, 2010
Laos continues to be dominated by corrupt military generals from the Lao Peoples Army and Hanoi who have impoverished the nation and destroyed much of its potential and many of its people.
 
 
 
 
 
Scoop News, New Zealand, May 2010,
Philip Smith, Director, CPPA; Dr. Grant McClure, Counterparts Veterans Association.; The Honorable John Barnum, Esquire; ... 6. 3News video: Megi makes landfall in the Philippines
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1005/S00298.htm
 
 
 
CBS News,, Business Network, February 1, 2010
"Chairman Berman's letter regarding the plight of the Lao Hmong refugees, is important. Unfortunately, however, after two years, the Lao military junta continues to deny the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and human rights organizations, access to the over 8,000 Lao H
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_20100201/ai_n48780232/
 
 
 
Media- Newswire, Febuary 10, 2010
Laos, Vietnam Peoples Army Unleashes Helicopter Gunship Attacks on Laotian and Hmong Civilians, Christian Believers ... including those independent Lao and Hmong Christian ...
 

 
SCOOP NEWS, New Zealand,  scoop.co.nz - Feb 2, 2010
The Washington DC-based Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) and ... They are urging the LPDR regime in Laos to allow the United Nations High ...
 
 
 
 
 
 Thursday, January 21, 2010, Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA,
Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-New Orleans, launched a new congressional foreign policy caucus Thursday, even as he fended off criticism from advocates for Lao- and Hmong-Americans ...
 
 
 
Area Hmong worried for relatives overseas | Green Bay Press ...
Green Bay Press Gazette, Dec 30, 2009 ... To learn about the Center for Public Policy Analysis, visit www.cppa-dc.org. The calls keep coming to Vaughn Vang of the Lao Hmong Human ...
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20091230/ GPG0101/102120013/Area-Hmong-worried-relatives-overseas

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20091230/ GPG0101/102120013/Area-Hmong-worried-relatives-overseas
Laos' Secret Prison Camps - Hmong Appeal - Scoop
Hmong families from St. Paul, Minnesota and across the United States are appealing for the release of their relatives held in a secret nextwork of prisons and camps in Laos by the Lao Peoples Army (LPA).
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1001/S00247.htm


 
 
Channel NewsAsia - Special Reports - Special Report -...
Channel News Asia - Jan 14, 2010
Philip Smith, executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis, which focuses on Laos, said some repatriated Hmong have disappeared. ... 
 
 
 
 
Green Bay Press Gazette, Green Bay, Wisconsin - Jan 24, 2010
Philip Smith director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis which has been ... Vaughn Vang director of the Lao Human Rights Council in Green Bay said ... 
 
 
 
News Blaze , January 31, 2010, Newsblaze.com , Jan 31, 2010 ... The Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Congressman Howard Berman , and 11 Members of Congress, have sent a letter to ...
newsblaze.com/story/2010013116361800001.bw/topstory.html
 
 
 
Laos, Hmong Religious Minorities, Including Christians, Animists, are Targeted By Lao Security Forces, Military
independent of government control,” said Philip Smith, ExecutiveDirector of the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA
 
 
 
Area Hmong worried for relatives overseas | Green Bay Press ...
Green Bay Press Gazette, Dec 30, 2009 ... To learn about the Center for Public Policy Analysis, visit www.cppa-dc.org. The calls keep coming to Vaughn Vang of the Lao Hmong Human ...
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20091230/ GPG0101/102120013/Area-Hmong-worried-relatives-overseas
 
 
 

Senate Questions U.S.-Thailand Military Funding as Anupong

ALL BUSINESS NEWS, December 28, 2009, 12-28-2009
Statements by U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA ... month in opposition to the return of the Hmong to Laos," said Philip Smith
http://www.allbusiness.com/ government/ government-bodies-offices-government/ 13659027-1.html

 

 

 

News Blaze, December 8, 2009, Newsblaze.com, Dec 8, 2009 ... As the Southeast Asia Games open in Laos, The Honorable Howard Eugene Douglas, the former Ambassador at Large and U.S. Refugee Affairs ...
newsblaze.com/story/2009120812153900001.bw/topstory.html
 
 
 
 

Laos, Hmong Wife pleads for missing Hmong - Americans in Laos

Straits News - Straits News, Singapore, Apr 18, 2009
Mr Hakit Yang's wife Sheng Xiong 26 said that she prayed each night that he ... Philip Smith executive director of the Center for Public Policy
 Analysis ...
 
 
 

US removes Laos, Cambodia from trade blacklist

AsiaOne - Jun 13, 2009
... "is completely shocking and outrageous," said Philip Smith, executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis, which promotes Hmong rights. ... 
 
 
 

Lao soldiers decapitated a two-month-old girl, Christians suffer 
Christian Telegraph, August 22, 2009, A human rights organization has just learned that Lao soldiers captured, mutilated and decapitated a two-month-old girl during recent military attacks against Hmong and Laotian ...
www.christiantelegraph.com/issue6612.html
 
 
 
World Net Daily, August 20, 2009
"Philip Smith, the Executive Director of CPPA, told ICC of video footage smuggled out of Laos in 2004 that documents the aftermath of the killing and brutalization of five Hmong children, four of them girls, on May 19th of that year. That footage was used in an extremely graphic documentary, &q
 
 
ANS News, Thursday, August 20, 2009
Infant used as target practice during military attacks that leave 26 civilians dead
 
 
 
Laos: Military Attacks Lao Hmong Civilians | Scoop News 
 Scoop News, New Zealand, July 26-27, 2009, the green jungle foliage in the Phou Da Phao mountain area where many Lao Hmong women, children and other civilians were hiding was ripped apart by bursts of ...
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0908/S00029.htm
 
 
 
 
RushPR News, July 25, 2009
Clinton in opposition to the repatriation of Lao Hmong refugees from Thailand to Laos. ... Philip Smith of the CPPA concluded: “Tragically, following the White House
www.rushprnews.com/ 2009/ 07/ 25/ south-east-asian-nations-laos-praises-north-korea/
 
 
 
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 19, 2009
News of the dropped charges is celebrated in Hmong enclaves in the United States. ... "He's viewed as a quasi-martyr," said Phillip Smith, executive director at the ...
 
 
 
The New York Sun, New York, New York, September 21, 2009,
He’s viewed as a quasi-martyr,” one of Vang Pao’s friends, Philip Smith, ... makes us rue the fact that more is not known about the struggle of the Hmong ... government would have been putting itself on trial for betraying the Hmong ... Search in Category: News: Newspapers: Regional: United S
www.nysun.com/editorials/vang-pao-escapes/86878/
 
 
 

Thailand to Force 500 Hmong Refugees to Laos | Scoop News

Scoop News, New Zealand, scoop.co.nz - Sep 15, 2009
... Magazine the BBC Al Jazeera Ambassador H Eugene DouglasUSRet Dr Jane HamiltonMerritt Edmund McWilliamsUS Department of State Ret B Jenkins Middleton Joe ...
 
 
 

SCOOP NEWS - New Zealand , December 24, 2009
Scoop.co.nz - Dec 24, 2009
The Lao Human Rights Council, the Center for Public Policy Analysis and Lao ... said Philip Smith, Executive Director for the Center for Public Policy ... 
 
 
 

Channel News Asia - May 22, 2009
Philip Smith, executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis, which promotes Hmong rights, called on Congress to act or for President Barack ... 
 
 

Intellasia News Services -- Hmong refugees in Thailand sparks ...

May 4, 2009 ... Washington, D.C. USA 20006. Tele. ( 202 ) 543-1444 www.cppa-dc.org www.centerforpublicpolicyanalysis.org info@centerforpublicpolicyanalysis. ...
www.intellasia.net/news/articles/society/111263946_printer.shtm
stated Philip Smith, Executive Director of the CPPA in Washington,D.C. ... Smith continued: "On April 25, four Lao Hmong political refugees in Huay Nam ...
Asia Times Online - Jan 21, 2009
The Center for Public Policy Analysis, an American group advocating for Hmong rights, and the Hmong Human Rights Council Inc, both claimed the Lao army ... 
 
 
 
 
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay Wisconsin, Dec 30, 2009
The calls keep coming to Vaughn Vang of the Lao Hmong Human Rights ... The Center for Public Policy Analysis in Washington, DC, backs Vang's assessment. ... 
 
 
 
- Fresno Bee - Feb 8, 2009, Fresno, California
A longtime soldier, currently head of the Lao Veterans of America Institute, ... executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis, which works on ...
 
 
 

Radio France International- Obama rút tên Cam Bốt và Lào ra khỏi danh sách đen về...

Radio France International, RFI - Jun 13, 2009
Theo AFP Hoa Kỳ đã thắt chắt thêm quan hệ vói Cambốt và Lào vào lúc Trung Quốc ... Theo ông Philip Smith giám đốc trung tâmLào vẫn còn là chế độ độc đảng là ... 
 
 
 

Laotians and Hmong Civilians Suffer Attacks, Atrocities in Laos | Scoop...

Scoop News, New Zealand, scoop.co.nz - Jan 15, 2009
The Hmong Lao Human Rights Council the United League for Democracy in Laos Inc ... one party communist regime stated Philip Smith Executive Director of the ... 
 
 
 

Hmong Refugees in Thailand Sparks Suicide Attempts | Scoop...

scoop.co.nz - May 2, 2009
... human suffering of the Lao and Hmong people," stated Philip Smith, Executive Director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) in Washington, ... 
 
 
 
 
 
Scoop News, New Zealand, scoop.co.nz - Dec 9, 2009
As the Southeast Asia (SEA) Games open in Laos, The Honorable Howard Eugene Douglas, ... Douglas and the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) are urging ...
 
 
 
 

Seven Hmong Families Forced to Laos Amid Tear Gas 

World News, Scoop News, New Zealand ,August 13, 2009

<!--[endif]-->Doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=3627&cat=press-release "Unfortunately, now, with adapted and cruel tactics and strategies, elements of the Royal Thai Third Army and Ministry of Interior troops have launched a new bloody and brutal campaign to force Hmong refugees from Thailand to
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0908/S00250.htm

 

Congress Appeals to Obama Administration, Thailand: Stop...

SYS-COM    sys-con.com - Jun 17, 2009
MSF is historical," said Dr. Jane Hamilton-Merritt , author of "Tragic Mountains : The Hmong, The Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos " and Nobel Peace ... 
 
 
 
 
Seven Hmong Families Forced to Laos Amid Tear Gas | Scoop News 
Smith concluded: "Following MSF's, Doctors Without Borders,' protest withdrawal from the Hmong camp in May, ... Thursday, 13 August 2009, 5:52 pm; Press Release: Center for Public Policy Analysis
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0908/S00250.htm
 

Hmong Refugees in Thailand Sparks Suicide Attempts | Scoop...

Scoop News, New Zealand, scoop.co.nz - May 2, 2009
... Policy Analysis (CPPA) in Washington, DC "Ironically, many of these 5500 Lao Hmong ... The Stalinist regime in Laos remains a close ally of the military ...
 
 
 
 
 

US removes Laos, Cambodia from trade blacklist

AsiaOne - Jun 13, 2009
... "is completely shocking and outrageous," said Philip Smith, executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis, which promotes Hmong rights. ... 
 
 

Forced Repatriation of Lao Hmong Refugees Worrying | Scoop...

Scoop News, New Zealand, scoop.co.nz - Feb 7, 2009
... Executive Director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis in Washington, ... author and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Dr. Jane Hamilton-Merritt, ...

 

Hmong Crisis: Thailand's PM Abhisit, Gen. Anupong Mobilize...

News Blaze  newsblaze.com - Dec 31, 2008
questioned Dr. Jane Hamilton-Merritt , a human rights and refugee expert. Dr. Hamilton-Merritt's acclaimed book 'Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans ... 
 
 
 
 
News Blaze, newsblaze.com, December 27, 2008
will honor author and human rights activist Dr. Jane Hamilton-Merritt and commemorate the 15th anniversary of the publication of her book Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the
www.newsblaze.com/story/2008122713530300001.pnw/topstory.html 

 

NERAKHOON Film Offers Hope to Those Betrayed in Laos,...

 News Blaze, November 22, 2008,  newsblaze.com - Nov 22, 2008

The Lao Hmong Students Organization the Lao Veterans of America United League for Democracy in Laos the Center for Public Policy AnalysisCPPA and a coalition ... 

 

 

 

Laos, Hmong Crisis: Thailand's Samak Uses Troops, Tear Gas

Boston Globe, Saturday May 24, 2008

Thailand's Samak Uses Troops and Tear Gas Against Lao Hmong Refugees during Laotian, Hmong refugee crisis.

www.finance.boston.com/boston/news/read?GUID=5561769

 

 

Laos Crisis :  Thailand's Samak Uses Tear Gas and Troops Against Hmong Refugees

China Weekly News, June 9, 2008

Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej ordered Thai Third Army troops to use tear gas and pepper spray today to seek to force hundreds of Lao Hmong refugees onto eleven buses to repatriate them back to the communist regime in Laos that they fled. On May 16, eight members of the U.S. Senate wrote a letter appealing to Prime Minister Samak and U.S. Secretary of State Rice to grant asylum to some 8,000 Hmong refugees and not force them back to Laos.

The letter was sent to U.S. Secretary of State Rice by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Senator Russell Feingold (D-WI), Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Senator Dianne..
 

 

 U.S. AMBASSADOR TO LAOS RAVIC HUSO SAYS HE'S SEEKING...
St. Paul Pioneer Press -  St. Paul, Minnesota, Mar 20, 2008

As many as 60000 Hmong, many of whom fled Laos in the aftermath of the ... Philip Smith, executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis, ...

 

… Ravic Huso Confronted Over Hmong Crisis : RushPRNews -...

RushPRnews.com - Mar 19, 2008
Washington, DC (RushPNews)March 10, 2008-The Center for Public Policy Analysis and the families of three Hmong-American citizens from St. Paul, Minnesota, ...
 
 
 
News Blaze, Newsblaze.com, ( December 31, 2008 ) Dec 31, 2008 ... Thailand's new Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, and Army Chief Anupong Paochinda, in apparent preparation for the Prime Minister's upcoming ...
newsblaze.com/story/2008123121030200002.pnw/topstory.html
 
 

US probes claims that Hmong people facing persecution in Laos ...

Channel News Asia, Feb. 6, 2008, Feb 6, 2008 ...

 "We feel very strongly that this is a major effort to force these Lao Hmong refugees and asylum seekers back to Laos," , ...
www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/.../.html - Singapore

 

Bitter days for a fabled old ally

Los Angeles Times, January 17, 2008, Los Angeles, California,

Hmong refugees seethe as a venerated warrior, under house arrest in California, faces U.S. charges of plotting a coup against Laos.

 

U.S. and Lao officials will meet about missing St. Paul men

Star Tribune , Minneapolis, MN, September 4, 2007

Today's meeting in the Lao capital of Vientiane will give U.S. State Department officials a chance to find out if the three men were detained by Lao authorities.

  http://www.startribune.com/local/11588896.html

 

 

Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 9, 2007 

Wives, children and a mother -- about 20 relatives in all -- lingered at the airport on Sunday on the slim chance that they would see three St. Paul men thought to be imprisoned in Laos.

 

 

Supporters say Hmong refugees...

AP Archive - Jul 18, 2007
AP Archive Supporters of the Hmong community said Tuesday that indictments ... executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis, a Washington, ..
 

Hmong supporters criticize indictments - USATODAY.com

USA TODAY NEWS, July 17, 2007
Jul 17, 2007 ... But activists led by Philip Smith, a longtime advocate for Hmong causes who ... executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis, ...
www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2007-07-17-1201509033_x.htm
 
 
 

Saint Paul Pioneer Press:  SECRETARY OF STATE POWELL, UN TO CONFER ON LAOS

- St. Paul Pioneer Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota - Mar 26, 2004
US Rep Betty McCollum DSt Paul continues to call on the Lao government to ... over there there are Hmong surrendering said Philip Smith executive director ...  
 
 

Laos Dissidents Secretly Repatriated from Thailand | Scoop...

Scoopn News, New Zealand, scoop.co.nz - Jul 7, 2004
Jointly issued by the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), ... the Hmong Emergency Crisis Task Force (HECTF), the United Lao Action Center (ULAC), ... 
 
 
 

Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities : Hmong oppose trade with Laos regime

Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota  - Apr 15, 2004
An increasingly polarizing issue in the local Hmong community - opening trade between the ... Smith, director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis, ... 
 
 
 

Hmong refugee policy seems to be softening

Wausau Daily Herald , Wausau, Wisconsin - May 1, 2004
The Hmong refugees at a Buddhist temple in Thailand might not be the last allowed to ... the executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis, ...
 
 
 
Asia Times - Furor over arrest of journalists, pastor in...

Asia Times Online - Jun 26, 2003
Philip Smith executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis in ... Christians to renounce their faith Minnesota's Pioneer Press reported ... 
 

Saint Paul Pioneer Press: LAOS ALLOWS ARRESTED PASTOR TO SEE US AMBASSADOR …

St. Paul Pioneer Press - Jun 17, 2003
Naw-Karl Mua, a naturalized US citizen born in Laos, left Minnesota in May to do ... group affiliated with his trip, the Center for Public Policy Analysis. ...aa

 

ABUSES  IN LAOS - JOURNALISTS, PASTOR ARRESTED WHILE IN LAOS, HE SAW DUTY TO...

 

- St. Paul Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Ninnesota,  - Jun 13, 2003
A St. Paul pastor detained last week in Laos wanted to investigate and draw world ... director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis in Washington. ..
 
 

Laotian trade war.(WORLD)(EMBASSY ROW)

- Washington Times , Washington, D.C., - May 1, 2003
The executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis, ... to the communist government of Laos until it respects the human rights of its citizens, ... 
 
 
 
An American And Two Europeans Arrested In Laos | Scoop News
Jun 18, 2003 ... BANGKOK, Thailand -- Two European journalists said they were arrested in Laos with an American pastor after Lao troops killed an ethnic ...
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0306/S00125.htm
 
 

St. Paul family worries, awaits word on pastor jailed in Laos,  Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities : St. Paul...

 

Minneaoplis Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota - Minneapolis Star-Tribune - Jun 24, 2003
Hmong veterans plan to join the growing chorus of anti-trade voices at a state ... director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis in Washington, DC, ... 
 
 

Fort Worth Star-Telegram : Area Laotian marches at United Nations to Urge Democracy & Human Rights in Laos

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas - Sep 13, 2000
Vixay Keona Khone's hope for a freer Laos prompted him to travel Tuesday from his ... Philip Smith executive director of Center for Public Policy Analysis a ... 
 
 

St. Paul Pioneer Press - St. Paul, Minnesota, May 22, 1995
... forcing refugees to repatriate to Laos, said Philip Smith, director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 

 

 

Opinion Editorals / Columns

 

 

 

 

Laos must abide by European resolution

By Philip Smith

 The Nation, Bangkok, Thailand, February 15, 2013 (Opinion Editorial)

 

We are encouraged that the terrible plight of Sombath, who [it is alleged] was extrajudicially abducted and "disappeared" in December, was discussed at the highest levels of a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on February 7. The result was the unanimous and historic passage by the parliament...

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Centre for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) and a coalition of Lao and Hmong NGOs have issued an international appeal urging Laos to release political and religious dissidents, and jailed Americans, prior to the beginning of the ninth Lao Communist Party congress in the coming days.

 The appeal also requests that the Lao government halt illegal logging by Vietnamese military companies in Laos and release nearly 8,000 Hmong political refugees and asylum-seekers forcibly repatriated from Thailand to Laos in December of 2009.The Lao Communist Party is losing more credibility with the Lao..

The appeal also requests that the Lao government halt illegal logging by Vietnamese military companies in Laos and release nearly 8,000 Hmong political refugees and asylum-seekers forcibly repatriated from Thailand to Laos in December of 2009
 
The Lao Communist Party is losing more credibility with the Lao people, in part because it continues to take a closed-door, monopolistic approach to governing and has failed to provide international access to, or release, prisoners of conscience as well as Lao Hmong refugees.
 
 
The Party Congress in Laos began yesterday and is reportedly closed to the media as well as foreign diplomats.
 
 
"There needs to be transparency by the Lao government and a voice for the voiceless, suffering people of Laos," said Khampoua Naovarangsy a press freedom advocate for the Laos Institute for Democracy.
 
 
"We are very concerned about the arrest and beating again of Christian Pastor Wanna in Laos as well as other independent Lao and Hmong Christians, Buddhists and animists who seek to worship independently of the Communist Party's monitoring and control," said Boon Boulaphanh of the Lao Community of Minnesota.
 
 
"We are appealing to the Lao government to immediately release the Lao student leaders, Pastor Wanna, and others who seek political reform and religious freedom," said Bounthanh Rathigna, president of the United League for Democracy in Laos (ULDL).
 
Excerpts from the eight-point international appeal state:"We appeal to the Lao government and Communist Party to release all political and religious dissidents, as well as some 8,000 Lao Hmong refugees and asylum-seekers. "Our eight-point international appeal requests that the Lao government and Communist Party: First, release imprisoned members of the Lao Students Movement for Democracy, leaders of the October 1999 peaceful anti-government protests in Vientiane. Second, provide unfettered international access, and third-country resettlement to 8,000 Lao Hmong refugees and asylum-seekers forcibly repatriated from Thailand to Laos in December 2009. .(More...)
 
(For More) See Opinion Section, The Nation, Bangkok, Thailand

 

 

 

 

 

A new era of abuse in Southeast Asia

By Philip Smith

June 6, 2011, Minneapolis Star Tribune

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/124518218.html

Religious persecution and human- rights violations continue for many in Southeast Asia, especially the ethnic Hmong minority of Vietnam and Laos, who are now suffering from egregious abuses.

After deploying the military and sealing off the area to journalists last month, Vietnam People's Army (VPA) special forces have pursued ethnic Hmong involved in mass protests.

 Hmong demonstrators, including many honoring the beatification of Pope John Paul II last month in Vietnam's largest Catholic diocese, Hung Hoa, have fled a violent army crackdown that continues in northeastern Vietnam's Dien Bien Province, along the border with Laos.

Hmong-Americans, and other Southeast Asians in the Twin Cities, are concerned about recent developments and fear for their families overseas who are facing greater  religious persecution.

Contrary to some reports, many of the Hmong now facing persecution are Catholics, Protestants or Animist believers who gathered to appeal to Hanoi for land reform, religious freedom, human rights and an end to illegal logging by VPA-owned companies.

One overlooked factor, however, that brought many of the Hmong together and helped spark the mass protests was the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II in Rome on May 1, the day the Hmong gathered in full force in Dien Bien province.

The peaceful mass gathering involved 8,500 ethnic Viet-Hmong protestors. It is the same area where French forces suffered defeat at
the hands of the Viet Minh guerrillas in May 1954, at Dien Bien Phu.


The Hmong in Vietnam and Laos have often resisted the Communist Party's restrictions on human rights, religious freedom and civil
liberties. Pope John Paul II inspired many in
The recent Hmong protests continued for nearly a week until VPA soldiers and police were finally ordered in to crackdown on the outpouring of religious and political dissent. (For The Full Text of This Piece Visit the Star Tribune at http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/124518218.html

 

 

 

Guest column: U.S. policy failure had hand in Hmong refugee crisis

 

GUEST COLUMN:  US POLICY FAILURE HAD HAND IN HMONG REFUGEE CRISIS

BY PHILIP SMITH

Green Bay Press-Gazette, January 15, 2010

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com

Hmong-Americans in Green Bay are suffering because of the recent mass forced return of their loved ones from refugee camps in Thailand back to Laos over the holidays. Tragically, with the help of Washington bureaucrats, America once again has helped betray many of its former Hmong allies who served with U.S. clandestine and military forces during the Vietnam War.

More than 4,700 Hmong were forced by the Thai Army back to Laos, where they had fled political and religious persecution. Journalists from "The Age" in Australia have now discovered that many Hmong returnees are being held in secret razor-wire ringed camps far from the "Potemkin Village" model, propaganda camps Laos shows to foreign visitors.

Key U.S. diplomats have chosen to ignore overwhelming evidence of human rights abuses against the Hmong people, including horrific attacks by the Lao military on civilians and dissidents, and instead stressed promoting free trade with the one-party, communist regime in Laos. Tragically, these officials, including the current U.S. ambassador to Laos, Ravic Huso, helped facilitate the forced repatriation policy, despite opposition by key members of Congress as well as human rights and refugee organizations.


Huso has encouraged the return of Hmong refugees from Thailand to Laos despite concerns raised by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders (MSF). He has repeatedly ignored human rights violations against the Hmong in Laos and returnees from Thailand, who have disappeared or have been imprisoned, tortured or killed at the hands of Lao military forces in recent years.


After repeated State Department stonewalling and mixed messages on this plight of the Hmong refugees, nine senators including U.S. Sens. Russell Feingold, D-Middleton, Herb Kohl, D-Milwaukee, and Richard Lugar, R-Ind., sent a letter on Dec. 17 directly to Thai Prime Minister Abhisit urging him to halt the forced return of the Hmong to Laos.


On Christmas Eve, the State Department finally issued a long-overdue public statement urging Thailand to cease the forced return of the Hmong. It lacked teeth. The Thai Army and Prime Minister Abhisit ignored the State Department appeal. It was too little, too late.


Clearly, the State Department's public message to Tha
iland should have been articulated at a higher level, much sooner, to seek to reverse this policy failure and help save the Hmong from forced repatriation to Laos.

Philip Smith is executive director of the Center for Public Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C. E-mail info@centerforpublicpolicyanalysis.org.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Book Foreword--
 
"Standing Ground" By Kay Danes
2008,Australia, New York, Washington, DC, Hong Kong and London
 

Global News Service - News and Press Release - PressZoom.com ...

The unique strategic role of Laos, both during the Vietnam War and presently, makes this book all the more interesting and important. Standing Ground helps ...
presszoom.com/story_148273.html

“The ordeal of Kerry and Kay Danes in the mysterious and exotic land of Laos is, perhaps most importantly, a unique human saga of love, courage, honor, heroism and the triumph of hope in the face of overwhelming odds against a ruthless Stalinist regime.” - Philip Smith, Executive Director, Center for Public Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C.


(PressZoom) - Washington, D.C., April 2, 2009 - Australian author Kay Danes has received a special invitation to speak at the prestigious World Affairs Conference in Boulder, Colorado, from April 6-10, 2009.

Mrs. Danes is also slated to speak at events in Washington, D.C. later this month. She is an invited keynote speaker at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. and U.S. Congress on April 16-17 regarding human rights violations and political prisoners in Laos and the plight of thousands of Laotian and Hmong refugees in Thailand and Laos. media-newswire.com/release_1088730.html

Last month, Kay Danes' latest book, "Standing Ground," was release in Australia about her plight in Laos. kaydanes.com

Philip Smith, Executive Director for the Center for Public Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C., and a former U.S. Congressional adviser for national security and foreign policy issued the following statement regarding Kay and Kerry Danes new book “Standing Ground”:

 

 

 

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