31/12/09
The United Nations refugee agency, the UNHCR, has asked the government of Laos to allow it access to the more than 4,000 Hmong asylum-seekers recently deported from Thailand. The agency says some of those sent back to Laos have refugee status and need international protection. In a statement, the UN also urged the Thai government to detail the assurances it recieved from the Laotian authorities on the treatment of the Hmong. Thai officials, supported by hundreds of Thai troops, completed the deportation of the ethnic Hmong back to Laos on Tuesday.
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/12/200912302251530993.html
Tags: Laos, Migrants & Refugees, Thailand, UN