Vannasay <vansay.s...@gmail.com>

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,