Hmong families from St. Paul, Minnesota and across the United States are appealing for the release of their relatives held in a secret nextwork of prisons and camps in Laos by the Lao Peoples Army (LPA). In the last several days, a team of Australian journalists from “The Age” was barred from entering a secret prison, surrounded by razor wire and LPA troops in the Paksan area of Sayabouri Province. There thousands of Hmong refugees from Thailand’s Huay Nam Khao and Nong Khai were recently forcibly repatriated.
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