[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9380]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            THIRTY YEARS LATER HELP THE HMONG STILL IN LAOS

  (Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I rise on the occasion of the 
30th anniversary of America pulling out of the Vietnam war.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise in horror at the continued atrocities against the 
Hmong folk who now reside in the jungles of Laos. Like a cheap date, a 
one-night stand, we abandoned our brethren who fought along with the 
CIA, and they were forced to flee into the jungle. Reports of rapes, 
mass killings, use of biological weapons have gone uninvestigated.
  Mr. Speaker, I call upon the State Department to press Laos to 
immediately pull back its troops, grant international human rights 
monitors and workers access to the Hmong community and allow them to 
peacefully settle.
  Mr. Speaker, we cannot stand by and abandon our fellow soldiers in 
the Vietnam war.

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