Laos deports California pro-Hmong activists

[dArKeR]

Laotian authorities have deported three of four US nationals arrested after the surrender of around 170 relatives of ethnic Hmong rebels, a government spokesman and the US embassy in Laos said yesterday.

"Three of them have been set free. They were handed over on Monday to the American embassy and immediately taken to the border with Thailand," Laotian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yong Chantalangsy said.

The four arrested were Georgie and Ed Szendrey from California and two Hmong-Americans, Nhia Vang Yang and Sia Cher Vang, all members of the Fact Finding Commission (FFC), a US-based organization backing the Hmong rebels.

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[Kerry 2008]

1. Cut Ties

We should cut all diplomatic ties and encourage other countries to do the same. They can't pretend the people they murdered never existed! The problem is, if Bolton wins confirmation, nobody at the U.N. would support such a thing.