Thailand starts deporting Hmong refugees back to Laos

[demoleft]

Source: bbc

Thailand has begun deporting a group of about 4,000 ethnic Hmong back to communist Laos, despite international concerns for their safety.

Thai officials said unarmed soldiers began closing a camp for Hmong refugees in northern Phetchabun province.

Thailand decribes them as economic migrants. The Hmong say they face persecution in Laos because they sided with US forces during the Vietnam war.
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Nine US senators sent a letter to Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to express concern about the repatriation plan and criticised the government's screening process to determine refugee status.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8432094.stm

[catnhatnh]

1. We fucked the Hmong....

...and probably should grant them asylum.

[azurnoir]

2. They were promised asylum

and told that if anything "went wrong" they would be welcomed in the US as hero's

I would hope that either or both Senator(s) Franken and Klobachar were among those that protested the deportation to Laos, the people would be welcomed by the Hmong community in St Paul and should be granted asylum here

[catnhatnh]

3. They get bad press in your area...

due to run ins with local hunters. I still like them and wish we had the group in NH.

[gopwacker_455]

4. They should be welcomed as US refugees