Reports from Laos indicate that the country’s military, with the assistance of Vietnam, is conducting a sustained incursion into the Hmong ChaoFa indigenous community’s territory, isolated areas where many Hmong have fled to avoid persecution at the hands of the regime. The Hmong people, an indigenous ethnic group located in Laos, Vietnam, and China, have been the targets of persecution and discrimination since the Vietnam War. During the war, the Hmong people supported U.S. efforts in attempting to thwart Vietnam’s push into Laos. As a result, the Communist regimes of Vietnam and Laos have directly targeted the indigenous territory with land confiscation, torture, imprisonment, denial of rights and death. Photo Courtesy of Tholakhong and Bounsa Phensenghack. Learn more: http://ow.ly/10xy8m