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by Tom Schalmo
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Hundreds of Hmong are rallying to call attention to the persecution of relatives in their native Laos.
The protesters came from around Wisconsin to peacefully protest at the Capitol on Thursday.
The Hmong fought alongside the U.S. against Communists during the Vietnam War era.
After the war ended in 1975, many of them fled to the U.S. to escape persecution from the Laotian government. They settled in large numbers in Wisconsin, Minnesota and California.
Protester Zablong Vang of Appleton says he wants the U.S. government to do more to stop the persecution. He says those left behind in the jungles of Laos are being killed and starved by Communists.
A similar rally was happening Thursday at the Capitol in Minnesota.
