Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Thais force Hmong refugees to go home [-Thai cruelty knows no bound!]

A picture released by the Royal Thai Army shows Hmong refugees being removed from the Huay Nam Khao camp in northern Thailand yesterday. Photo: AFP
December 29, 2009
By SETH MYDANS, BANGKOK
NEW YORK TIMES, AP

THE Thai army has begun forcibly returning thousands of ethnic Hmong asylum seekers to communist Laos despite international protests.
''The operation started at 5.30am [yesterday],'' Colonel Thana Charuvat, who is co-ordinating the repatriation, told reporters at an army centre about 12 kilometres from the camp in Phetchabun province.
He said 5000 soldiers, officials and civilian volunteers had entered the camp in Huay Nam Khao village to begin rounding up the group of more than 4000 Hmong being held there.
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