This is how some Lao Diaspora exercised their Democracy!

laopeoplesarmy · Senior Member

This is how some Lao Diaspora exercised their Democracy!

laopeoplesarmy · Senior Member

LOL
Dee was approximately 15 yrs old in 1975 and yet Mr. Bailey claimed that he worked for the CIA. Seems like the CIA likes to recruited little boys to fight their dirty little war.

http://www.messengernews.net/page/content.detail/id/508994.html

Hunters who died were best friends

WEBSTER CITY - They were best friends.

Dee Phonvilai, 48, and Tan Khamjoi, 44, both of Webster City, escaped the tide of communism that coursed through their native Laos during the Vietnam War over jungled mountains to the refugee camps of Thailand. Then each made his way to the United States and, finally, Iowa.

Here, they met.

Their journeys ended in the woods outside Woolstock.

Phonvilai, according to Iowa's Division of Criminal Investigation, accidentally shot Khamjoi around 10 a.m. Thursday while the friends were out hunting squirrels in a greenbelt area near the Boone River in southern Wright County. After calling in the emergency and leading authorities to where his friend had fallen, Phonvilai shot himself.

Those who knew both men say he did so out of grief.

''Dee was a Freedom Fighter,'' said Doug Bailey, who is a board member and founder of All Cultures Equal, a grassroots multicultural organization in Webster City that was familiar to both men's families. ''He worked for the CIA, with Special Forces along the Mekong River. They both lived in camps in Thailand. Dee was the true political refugee. He could not go back to Laos without knowing he would be killed.''

Bailey said both men had worked for Arrow Acme in Webster City until it closed several years ago. Phonvilai most recently worked at Electrolux in Webster City. Khamjoi worked at Tasler Inc., also in Webster City.

Both men were married and had children.

Friday night, at their homes, food was prepared, said Bailey. The families will make enough food to last for seven days. ''It's the preparation for the journey,'' he explained. ''The seven days of grieving. They have a picture and candles and they put food in front of the picture.''

This morning, autopsies are scheduled.

Tonight, both families will join with friends and relatives to share a meal at the ACE building in Webster City.

Next Saturday, Khamjoi will be remembered in a traditional-style funeral at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Webster City, where members of the Lao congregation worship every Sunday afternoon. He'll be buried at Cass Center Cemetery in rural Hamilton County.

Phonvilai will be going home.

He had told his daughter a year and a half ago that he had been in the United States long enough, Bailey said. When he died, he told her, he wanted to be cremated and his ashes returned to Laos.

Contact Jane Curtis at (515) 573-2141 or editor@messengernews.net

-- Edited by laopeoplesarmy at 09:31, 2008-09-20

Lan_Xang · Guru

laopeoplesarmy wrote:

http://www.kold.com/global/story.asp?s=9042535

Father shot near Laos Center

One person is in the hospital, and a second is under arrest following a gang-related shooting on Tucson's South Side. It happened just after 2:00 p.m. Friday, near Irvington and Sixth Avenue.
Investigators tell KOLD News 13 the shooting stemmed from an assault two weeks ago. The suspect and the daughter of the victim were coming from the Laos Center. That's where victim of the earlier assault pointed out the suspect to her father. When the 49-year-old father confronted the suspect he was shot. He is expected to survive.
Police caught the suspect near Liberty and Utah. He's now facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

I am not following you. How is this relate to Democracy?

Lan_Xang · Guru

laopeoplesarmy wrote:

LOL
Dee was approximately 15 yrs old in 1975 and yet Mr. Bailey claimed that he worked for the CIA. Seems like the CIA likes to recruited little boys to fight their dirty little war.

http://www.messengernews.net/page/content.detail/id/508994.html

Hunters who died were best friends

WEBSTER CITY - They were best friends.
Dee Phonvilai, 48, and Tan Khamjoi, 44, both of Webster City, escaped the tide of communism that coursed through their native Laos during the Vietnam War over jungled mountains to the refugee camps of Thailand. Then each made his way to the United States and, finally, Iowa.
Here, they met.
Their journeys ended in the woods outside Woolstock.
Phonvilai, according to Iowa's Division of Criminal Investigation, accidentally shot Khamjoi around 10 a.m. Thursday while the friends were out hunting squirrels in a greenbelt area near the Boone River in southern Wright County. After calling in the emergency and leading authorities to where his friend had fallen, Phonvilai shot himself.
Those who knew both men say he did so out of grief.
''Dee was a Freedom Fighter,'' said Doug Bailey, who is a board member and founder of All Cultures Equal, a grassroots multicultural organization in Webster City that was familiar to both men's families. ''He worked for the CIA, with Special Forces along the Mekong River. They both lived in camps in Thailand. Dee was the true political refugee. He could not go back to Laos without knowing he would be killed.''
Bailey said both men had worked for Arrow Acme in Webster City until it closed several years ago. Phonvilai most recently worked at Electrolux in Webster City. Khamjoi worked at Tasler Inc., also in Webster City.
Both men were married and had children.
Friday night, at their homes, food was prepared, said Bailey. The families will make enough food to last for seven days. ''It's the preparation for the journey,'' he explained. ''The seven days of grieving. They have a picture and candles and they put food in front of the picture.''
This morning, autopsies are scheduled.
Tonight, both families will join with friends and relatives to share a meal at the ACE building in Webster City.
Next Saturday, Khamjoi will be remembered in a traditional-style funeral at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Webster City, where members of the Lao congregation worship every Sunday afternoon. He'll be buried at Cass Center Cemetery in rural Hamilton County.
Phonvilai will be going home.
He had told his daughter a year and a half ago that he had been in the United States long enough, Bailey said. When he died, he told her, he wanted to be cremated and his ashes returned to Laos.
Contact Jane Curtis at (515) 573-2141 or editor@messengernews.net

-- Edited by laopeoplesarmy at 09:31, 2008-09-20

Samething here. I am not following you. How is this relate to Democracy?

LOLDee was approximately 15 yrs old in 1975 and yet Mr. Bailey claimed that he worked for the CIA. Seems like the CIA likes to recruited little boys to fight their dirty little war.http://www.messengernews.net/page/content.detail/id/508994.htmlHunters who died were best friends

LOLDee was approximately 15 yrs old in 1975 and yet Mr. Bailey claimed that he worked for the CIA. Seems like the CIA likes to recruited little boys to fight their dirty little war.http://www.messengernews.net/page/content.detail/id/508994.htmlHunters who died were best friends

LOL
Dee was approximately 15 yrs old in 1975 and yet Mr. Bailey claimed that he worked for the CIA. Seems like the CIA likes to recruited little boys to fight their dirty little war.

http://www.messengernews.net/page/content.detail/id/508994.html

Hunters who died were best friends

LOL
Dee was approximately 15 yrs old in 1975 and yet Mr. Bailey claimed that he worked for the CIA. Seems like the CIA likes to recruited little boys to fight their dirty little war.

http://www.messengernews.net/page/content.detail/id/508994.html

Hunters who died were best friends