Kafkaesque rebranding of pro-US fighters as terrorists
During the Indochina war the US recruited fighters from the Hmong people of Laos to disrupt North Vietnamese supply and troops movements along the Ho Chi Minh trail. While an estimated 170,000 ex-combatant Hmong and their relatives now live in the US , others seeking asylum have bizarrely fallen fou...
Main Author: | Benjamin Zawacki |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Arabic |
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University of Oxford
2007-07-01
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Series: | Forced Migration Review |
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Online Access: | http://www.fmreview.org/en/FMRpdfs/FMR28/22.pdf |
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