Laos denies Hmong persecution - Human Rights
16/3/08
The government of Laos has denied that thousands of ethnic Hmong face persecution in the forests of the land-locked country, a day after an exclusive Al Jazeera report showed showing hundreds of starving Hmong living in constant fear of attack. “The Hmong in Laos are not at all persecuted,” Yong Chanthalangsy, spokesman for the Laos ministry of foreign affairs told Al Jazeera on Friday.”We do not consider those in the films as our enemy,” he said, referring to video footage shot in secret by Al Jazeera correspondent Tony Birtley. “On the contrary we are helping them to reintegrate with the mainstream of society.”
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/322E62C3-39C4-42E5-B631-7539B1B8366A.htm