The Children have been found and will return to their parents shortly. "Laos has told Thailand that 21 out of the 26 Hmong teenagers who went missing after being secretly deported in December 2005 have been found."

Mai Summer Vue 

Mai Summer Vue is the Chair Person of the Hmong-American Coalition

for the Human Rights and Justice in the Central Valley California and the Chair person

of this Rally. Mai Summer is an extraordinary and passionate Human Rights Activist.

Her commitment to defend, protect and stand up for the Hmong people are priceless.

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Letter_to_Secretary_Rice  

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkj_laos/page7/ The Pictures were taking by a Lao PDR Official. Credit goes to DKJ. Thanks for sharing these photos with all of us..

On January 30, 2007, the Lao PDR and Royal Thai governments conducted a ceremony to exercise their agreement on the handover of the 152 Hmong refugees in Nongkhai IDC to the Lao Government officials without the refugees’ acknowledgements. With due respect to the Lao PDR and Royal Thai governments, we understand their position to implement their policies and to conduct the necessary procedures to solve the Hmong problem in Thailand “once and for all”. However, Thailand has been a UN Member State since 1946 and a current member of the Economic and Social Council, and the Lao PDR Government has been a UN Member State since 1955. We believe that the event which took place in Nongkhai IDC was a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights under the following Articles:  

152 Hmong Refugees are crying for help!