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Thirty Years Later Help the Hmong Still in Laos

Date: May 12, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Foreign Affairs


THIRTY YEARS LATER HELP THE HMONG STILL IN LAOS -- (House of Representatives - May 12, 2005)

(Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)

Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I rise on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of America pulling out of the Vietnam war.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in horror at the continued atrocities against the Hmong folk who now reside in the jungles of Laos. Like a cheap date, a one-night stand, we abandoned our brethren who fought along with the CIA, and they were forced to flee into the jungle. Reports of rapes, mass killings, use of biological weapons have gone uninvestigated.

Mr. Speaker, I call upon the State Department to press Laos to immediately pull back its troops, grant international human rights monitors and workers access to the Hmong community and allow them to peacefully settle.

Mr. Speaker, we cannot stand by and abandon our fellow soldiers in the Vietnam war.

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