26 december 2009:
(‘thailand’ starts repatriating 4,000 ‘hmong asylum seekers’ to ‘laos’, despite ‘international protest’)
(the hmong (RPA: Hmoob/Moob, IPA: [m̥ɔ̃ŋ]) are an ethnic group from the mountainous regions of ‘china’, ‘vietnam’, ‘laos’, and ‘thailand’)
(‘hmong’ are also one of the sub-groups of the ‘miao’ ethnicity (苗族) in ‘southern china’)
(‘hmong’ groups began a gradual southward migration in the 18th century due to political unrest and to find more arable land)
(during the first and second ‘indochina wars’, ‘france’ and the ‘united states’ recruited thousands of ‘hmong people’ in ‘laos’ to fight against forces from north and south ‘vietnam’ and communist ‘pathet lao’ insurgents, known as the ‘secret war’, during the ‘vietnam war’ and the ‘laotian civil war’)
(following the war, hundreds of thousands of ‘hmong’ refugees fled to ‘thailand’ seeking ‘political asylum’)
(thousands of these refugees have resettled in western countries since the late 1970s, mostly in the california city of ‘merced’ / ‘california’ in the ‘united states’, but also in ‘australia’, ‘france’, ‘french guiana’, ‘canada’, and ‘argentina’)
(others have returned to ‘laos’ under united nations-sponsored ‘repatriation programs’)
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