> The Phinong Hmong’s repatriation should not come as surprise,
> particularly if we followed up to the rationale behind the decision
> made by Thai and Lao government as a result of the long overdue
> resettlement impasse yet without any political standing. If something
> speaks volumes, it also tells us a lot about the biggest absent-mind
> on this issue is uncle Sam who seems to be content to play a few PR
> tune to the ears of the U.S local Hmong constituents with hope to
> capture a few incentive in the event of their own district election,
> and beyond the headline is just history…When no alternative and other
> viable options, the repatriation is in the best interest of these
> misguided innocent people who have been already suffering enough of
> all these false prophecies, before any unnecessary violence sprouts
> out at the next round of frustration. The final nail in the coffin is
> that the prospect for a third country is dwindling since long time,
> following by the Thai government’s mounting domestic pressure to get
> rid of these camps once for all…

> Meanwhile the outside various political Hmong groups as we all know
> can only be bogged down into their endless old buried feuds and empty
> cold war rhetoric. When it comes to the real substance, there’s no
> contest for lack of Uncle Sam’s support, they are just too fragmented
> and incapable to come up with a unified and credible humanitarian
> solution, except a few courageous family members who have dodged to
> help their own individual family members to soothe their pain in the
> transitional waiting or back to their native homeland.

> Time has changed in this emerging new world order,  the cold war
> rhetoric is not going to do any good, all but disservice to themselves
> like the fate of general Vang Pao and his close associates…If any
> Hmong splinters want to be re-connected to their birth place, they
> have to follow the same footstep as Uncle Sam has just initiated is to
> recognize the new reality by dealing with your adversaries of
> yesteryear…The choice is yours…if the noble goal is to alleviate the
> long-termed pain and suffering of these Phinong Hmong.

> Vannasay,