Years ago, a promise was made, it was made in honor that the people will be set free to live in peace. Months later that promise was betrayed and left the people in the mountains to die for a war they did not start. Those people, were called Hmong.
"A former Laotian military general who helped the CIA wage covert war in Southeast Asia more than 30 years ago and a former officer in the California National Guard were charged Monday in federal court with plotting a violent overthrow of Laos' communist government.
Gen. Vang Pao, a prominent Hmong leader who lives in Orange County, was charged with conspiracy to topple Laos leaders in a case that reads like it was taken from the pages of a spy novel." Read More »
