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Lt. Colonel Wangyee Vang, of the Lao Veterans of America Institute, met with Members of the U.S. Congress to rally support in Washington to grant veterans' benefits to Lao Hmong veterans who served secretly in Laos during the Vietnam War.

In response to the current Lao Hmong refugee and humanitarian crisis in Thailand and Laos, The Honorable H. Eugene Douglas, Former U.S. Ambassador, issued a statement about the plight of Lao-Hmong refugees at Huay Nam Khao and Nong Khai, Thailand.

Laos and Hmong-American Students from across the U.S. are urging Thailand’s General Anupong and Prime Minister Abhisit To Release 5,000 Lao Hmong Refugees Prior to to the Start of the Southeast Asia Games (SEA) Games in Laos.

Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), an organization funded by the provincial and federal government, which provides high quality legal aid services to low-income residents of Ontario, was expanding its central office.

The U.S. Congress and U.S. Senator Norm Coleman are urging the Lao government to immediately release Hakit Yang and two other Hmong-American citizens from St. Paul, Minnesota that continue to be jailed in Laos.

The United League for Democracy in Laos, Inc. (ULDL), in cooperation with the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) and the Lao Community of Minnesota, have concluded events in Washington, D.C. to discuss serious human rights violations in Laos.

The Lao Veterans of America (LVA) and the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) will hold a memorial service at Arlington National Cemetery and a wreath laying ceremony at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Sheng Xiong, the wife of Hakit Yang, and spokesperson for the families of three Hmong-American citizens from St. Paul, Minnesota currently being jailed in Laos, made the following statement and appeal to Congress and international policymakers.

The Lao Peoples Democractic Republic (LPDR) regime, in cooperation with Vietnam, has issued a new order and comprehensive strategy to mount a major military offensive to exterminate thousands of Hmong in hiding in the jungles and mountains of Laos.

The Bush Administration’s failure to address the current Bosnia and Darfur-like crisis in Laos facing thousands of freedom-loving Laotian and Hmong people is a foreign policy and national security disaster that will haunt America for years to come.

A coalition of Lao and Hmong organizations are slated to rally in key states across the United States on Thursday, March 13, 2008, from 11:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. (local time) to protest the forced repatriation and killing of Lao and Hmong refugees.

A coalition of Lao and Hmong organizations in Washington, D.C. have denounced the visit of Thai Premier Samak Sundaravej to Laos following increased Lao military attacks and Samak's forced repatriation of Lao-Hmong refugees.

A coalition of Lao and Hmong organizations in Washington, D.C. have denounced the visit of Thai Premier Samak Sundaravej to Laos following increased Lao military attacks and Samak's forced repatriation of Lao-Hmong refugees.

A series of US Congressional and Capitol Hill policy events, meetings and conferences were concluded in Washington, DC.yesterday regarding the catastrophic human rights situation in Laos and refugee crisis in Thailand, which continues to worsen.

Three Hmong-Americans from St. Paul, Minnesota who were arrested and jailed in Laos by Lao military and security forces last year were one of the key topics at a US.Congressional Forum on Laos held in Washington, D.C. on human rights violations.

A US Congressional forum and policy briefing on Laos and the Hmong people will be held to discuss recent developments in Laos and Thailand regarding the human rights, refugee and humanitarian crisis facing thousands of Laotian and Hmong refugees.

The Lao Human Rights Council will host a Lao-Hmong human rights forum on the plight of over 8,000 Lao-Hmong political refugees and asylum seekers facing the threat of forced repatriation back to the communist regime in Laos that they fled.

Hundreds of Hmong and Lao-Americans are slated to rally in Minnesota in opposition to the recent arrest in Laos of three Hmong-Americans and to oppose the repatriation of Lao-Hmong refugees from Thailand back to the regime in Laos that they fled.

Laos, Thailand Crisis: US Congressional Forum To Discuss Emergency Plight of Lao and Hmong Refugees At Ban Huay Nam Khao and Nong Khai, Lao Regime's Ethnic Cleansing and Increase Killing of Refugees

In cooperation with Members of Congress, the Congressional Forum and follow-on events in the U.S. Congress will discuss policy issues and seek to release and discuss the U.S. Congressional letter to the King of Thailand regarding Laos and the Hmong.

A special session of the U.S. Congressional Forum on Laos will be held to discuss the current crisis in Laos and Thailand facing Laotian and Hmong dissidents, political refugees and asylum seekers.

U.S. Congressional Laos policy briefings and discussions on the current crisis in Laos and Thailand facing Hmong and Laotian refugees and asylum seekers will continue on Capitol Hill through July 19, 2007 regarding the emergency situation.

Laos, Hmong Crisis: US Congressional Policy Briefing On Emergency Refugee and Human Rights Developments in Laos, Thailand

A Hmong and Laotian human rights rally and candle-light vigil will be held at the U.S. District Court House in Sacramento, California to draw attention to the current human rights crisis in Laos and protest ethnic cleansing and mass starvation.