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Background information on these people.
During the Vietnam War the American CIA recruited a hill tribe from the mountains of Laos, the Hmong, to fight along side the Americans. They were promised that when the war ended they, the Hmong, would be brought to safety. When the war ended for America, America up and left behind all the Hmong people to fend for themselves. Thousands fled to refugee camps in Thailand while the less fortunate were left in Laos to fight for their lives.

It wasn't until 2003 when it became known that there are still thousands of Hmong in the jungles of Laos being hunted down by the Lao and Vietnamese government. Most of these people are children, women and elderly men who are at all no threat. They are left to fight with the same weapons they carried when America took it's troops out of Vietnam/Laos. It is said that these people are now being used as target practice by the military. The Lao government has denied any knowledge of these people, even though there is evidence from the seven foreign journalists who have risked their lives to get the voices of these people heard.


With government troops closing in, the ragged band of Hmong rebels anxiously await the coming onslaught. Weeping and kneeling on the ground, hundreds of Hmong rebels beseech the journalists who have arrived in their camp: "Please help us, the Communists are coming" -- This photo won "People in the News" for Time Asia.



A family poses with their weapons in the Hmong camp. 80-year-old Song Der fought against the French; his son, Sai Tua, fought with the CIA against the Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao. Sai's sons, Shua Yung, 26, and Sai, 10, now face the Laos Communist party



Village leader, Blia Shoua Her (center), holding an old American M-79 grenade launcher and surrounded by former Hmong fighters from the CIA's Secret Army, near Vang Vieng, Laos, July 3, 2006. Most of the men are from surrounding CIA Lima Sites 363, 319, 90 and 74. The CIA established remoted jungle landing strips in Laos called Lima Sites to provide aerial supply to their Secret Army. Ironically the Lao communist government now uses Lima Site 363 to supply its troops and to attack Blia Shoua Her and his men from the Secret Army.


Tong Hua Her, near Vang Vieng, Laos, June 29, 2006. Half of Tongís face is missing from a bullet wound leaving him blind in one eye with his nasal cavity exposed. His father and group leader, Blia Shoua Her yelled, "Communist! Communist do this!" His father says on July 15, 2003, Tong and some family were ambushed by Communist Lao troops who were on patrol.


Blia Shoua Her (center standing), and some of his group, near Vang Vieng, Laos, July 4, 2006. He apologized to me that more of his 500 people could not be present for a village portrait as they were too busy and desperate out searching for food in the jungle.


A recent visit to Yang's jungle hideout was the first to any camp of Secret War veterans by an American newspaper reporter. Family members broke down in tears and begged for help from the visitors.


Nou Chue Xiong, 68, one of the Secret War veterans that had previously served with the French Colonial Army, seemed resigned to die in the jungle. "I guess you will leave here and try to help us," Xiong told his visitor. "But if you can't, don't be sad."

You may ask why these people just don't surrender? The people from the group photo surrendered, were brought to Thailand, forced back to the hands of Laos and have disappeared since then. Thousands of others who have also surrendered have disappeared.

Click here for video. This is one of the most disturbing videos I have ever seen in my entire life. A lot of dead bodies.