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Laos to Hmong: Return, you've no choice



By: ACHARA ASHAYAGACHAT
Published: 20/02/2009 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News

PHETCHABUN : Hmong illegal migrants at a camp here have no choice but to return to Laos, says a senior Lao official, in a new campaign which seems to have failed. ''Don't dream that you will be landed elsewhere,'' said deputy chief of staff of the Lao armed forces Buaxiang Champaphan after talks with 20 Hmong leaders yesterday.


''No country, including the United States, will receive you.


''And don't ever hope to put up any resistance, as no one will support you. So think about it thoroughly again.''


The Lao officer initially planned to visit the camp at Ban Huay Nam Khao in Khao Kho district but changed his mind and met with the Hmong representatives at the nearby Khao Kho Task Force.


A heavy presence of soldiers around the small tents where the meeting was held did not allow any of the Hmong to appear outside or make any protest.


Brig-Gen Buaxiang accompanied Nipat Thonglek, head of the Border Affairs Department, as well as other senior officials from both sides to the meeting.


Since 2004, several thousand Hmong from Laos have migrated illegally to the village to join others from Tham Krabok temple in Saraburi who resettled there in the hope of being sent to a third country.


They were relocated last year to a more restricted holding area uphill under the vigilance of the army while Thailand and Laos worked out ways to solve the problem.


The camp was originally intended to close at the end of last year. But since May 2007, only 2,057 Hmong have been sent back home, while 5,474 remain.


Lt-Gen Nipat said Thailand was still trying to convince the illegal migrants to return home but has not set a new deadline.''It might be considered a delay but we will keep doing so within the humanitarian framework in which [repatriation] is on a voluntary basis,'' said Lt Gen Nipat, co-chairman of the Thai-Lao general border subcommittee.



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I have other version published by Nation about this topic. I would like post it again as to add some points.

Phetchabun -- A senior Lao official told Hmong refugees in the Ban Huay Nam Khao shelter Thursday that the ethnic group has no other option but to return home to Laos.

"Don't hope for a third country, nobody will receive you. Don't dream for a resistance movement, nobody supports you. The quicker you make the decision, the better life you will have," said Lao Deputy chief of staff BrigGeneral Buaxieng Champaphan.

Buaxieng is the first senior Lao official to visit the camp in Phetchabun to try and convince more than 5,000 Hmong to return home voluntarily.

The general told representatives of the Hmong that Lao authorities would not punish them for fleeing the country. Each would receive financial assistance of 300,000 kip (Bt1,800), a house and plot of land for farming upon their return, he said.






Supalak Ganjanakhundee

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Having read this article, I feel how good Lao government cares for the Hmong people. Lao government will provide a house and plot of land for farming upon their return.

Imagine! So far, no Lao people living in Laos have been provided such a financial assistance, let alone free house and plot of land. They'd got to build and buy if they want to have such things.

 



-- Edited by TSP at 09:29, 2009-02-21

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just go back to grow the rice in Laos, the government will look for a land and rice for them and i think the int organization will help them as well, cheer our hmong brothers

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Well 300,000 kip is about $35 but, 1,800 baht is slightly more than$50, I think they should work on the math first.


Maybe something was lost in translation but that general might want to work on his PR skills.



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