Laotian Civil War

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    doing. He is a man who for the sake of the Americans, fought in the Secret War which then led him through many hardships and guided him and his family to where they are today. My first question to him was,” Why did we [people of the Hmong] come to America?” Thus he answered,” We are here in the United States today because of the Americans. We, the Hmong, formed an alliance with the Americans and fought together in the Secret War (1961-1975). After Laos had been taken over by the Pathet Lao communist

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    Vang Pao Essay

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    Vang Pao was recruited by the CIA to help them fight a war in Laos, while the Vietnam war was going on. The CIA, General Vang Pao, American troops and the Hmong veterans were fighting against the Lao communist and the Vietnamese soldiers. The Lao communist government structurally declared genocide on the Hmong. They came to every Hmong village that thought supported the Americans. The communist slaughtered, burned, and raped the Hmongs. The war was kept secret by the American Government because the

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    the Vietnam war, but no one knows who they are and how they helped. The Hmong came from southeast Asia. Many fled from the war as a refuge from their country and some people were a refugee in their own country ("THE SPLIT HORN (2017) "). It is melancholy that people need to do this, but northern Vietnam had different political views. The major cause was a political view and northern Vietnam people started a war and it has dragged on for a while(“Fong Yang ( 2017 )”). The Vietnam war caused an abundance

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    constantly been the minority and often seen as the Other and persecuted for being such. Still, many have managed to survive and preserve much of their culture, such as religious beliefs and shamanic healing practices. During what is called The Secret War (1953-75), thousands of Hmong fought in the Royal Lao Army led by General Vang Pao against the communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese military, on behalf of the U.S. and France, who promised to let them come to the U.S. and receive veterans’ benefits

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    In China, Laos and Vietnam all of the governments were communists and run by a single group of people in power. Patti Zarling noted that when the United States pulled out Vietnam, Hmong people who sided with the United States were killed by the Laotian, which is a communist regime in Vietnam (Zarling 1). Not only were the Hmong’s killed during this time, the government wanted to make sure that they were punished for their disloyalty. According to Zarling’s article, "many were killed, women were

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    Vang Pa Impact

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    Imagine living in poverty while also in war. What would you try to do? General Vang Pao was able to save many people’s lives and bring them out of poverty too. General Vang Pao led the Hmong people to fight and defend agianst the Vietnamese along with the help of the U.S and the French, but after that he helped bring us to the U.S for safety and a better life. He didnt start the war but tried his best to do what he could then helped us flee from the conflict. Throughout his 81 years of living, he

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    that a civil war is going on there. On the other hand, others argue that it is a revolution against oppression that has been brutally responded to. Evaluating the situation in Syria requires solid understanding of specific terms of a civil war and a revolution. Also, is there a general consensus on what a civil war or a revolution is? Can the situation in Syria simply be classified into one of these two? The first important thing to know is that there is no single definition of a civil war that historians

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    August of 2015 (Robins-Early 5). This was an attack that occurred in the midst of the Syrian civil war, a war between the government (President Bashar al-Assad), and rebel civilians. The current civil war revolves around a conflict regarding the balance of power within the country, while an immense number of innocent civilians are being caught in the center of the violence and instability that the brutal war is causing. Over 4 million people have left the country as refugees, while some are unable

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    strong correlations between climate and conflict used civil war datasets as the measure of the outcome variable. The use of an aggregated country level civil war data may be missing the most important features of the accuracy, degree, and severity of the impact of climate change on Africa’s security environment. The use of civil war and political violence datasets to capture the impact of climate change may produce misleading outcomes. Unlike civil conflict and political violence, climate-related conflicts

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    Osama is raised on hearing tales from all the above mentioned sources; Fatima’s meeting with Efreet Jehannan as well as the story of how his grandfather becomes a hakawati; the story of his neighbors who are killed in the battles of the Lebanese Civil War as well as the love story of how his father meets his mother. In A New “Arabian Night”: A novel of Life in the Middle East Relies on the Art of Storytelling C. Crossen writes that some of the stories that Osama hears “come directly from Mr. Alameddine’s

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