Oct. 7, 2006
 
Update on Hmong Refugee Crisis in S.E. Asia From Rebecca Sommer
 
Dear Editor: Please see newest information on the Hmong Lao --
 
Yesterday night, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006 at 11 p.m. Boua Xang from Milwaukee, WI, received a call from a part of the group which was going to surrender. Five families had the courage to show up at the village.
 
No arrest, no soldiers received them, all silent. They did report that while walking down the mountain, they heard severe non-stop shootings at the "other side" of that mountain.
 
In other words, it was described that smaller guns fired non- stop, assumed towards another group in hiding.
 
The 5 families did not report their actual numbers of persons; they informed me that the rest of the group lost courage to come out, fearing for their safety.
 
LHRC president Kue Xiong received a call from Blia Shoua Her on the morning of Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006 and was informed that the rest of his group, including himself, became more and more afraid, and decided not to come out [of hiding] as of yet.
 
Rebecca Sommer
United Nations representative for the
Society for Threatened Peoples International
in consultative status to the ECOSOC
Indigenous Department, USA

 
Editor’s note: for background on this:
 
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/national/061005-kinchen-hmong.html