PHETCHABUN, ThailandPHETCHABUN, Thailand — Thailand early Monday morning launched an operation to close a refugee camp and send some 4,000 ethnic Hmong back to Laos, despite concerns about their ...
More than 300,000 Laotian refugees, mostly Hmong, fled into Thailand after the communist takeover in 1975. Most later resettled in the U.S. and elsewhere, but thousands stayed behind, some adjusting ...
As the Thai military today shut the last Thailand refugee camps that served as a years-long “temporary” home for ethnic Hmong asylum seekers who allied with the U.S. during the Vietnam War, local ...
“The operation started at 5.30am,” Colonel Thana Charuvat, who is coordinating the operation, told reporters at an army centre about 12 kilometres from a Hmong camp in northern Thailand. He said 5,000 ...