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Pastor Y Hin Nie, 75, preaches the gospel from the comfort of his church in the US state of North Carolina. But as a young man he survived nearly two decades in the jungle, giving sermons to his comrades fighting Vietnamese troops long after the war had ended - his AK-47 never far from his side. On the run and cut off from the world, Hin Nie and his unit of insurgents foraged for food and hunted for tiger skins to pay the Khmer Rouge. His "forgotten army" did not give up arms until 1992, after Hin Nie negotiated their...

Authorities in Vietnam said Friday they will prosecute 84 people accused of being involved in deadly attacks on two commune offices in central Dak Lak province and ordered them held in pre-trial detention. It isn’t clear who was behind the June 11 attacks, which left nine people dead, or what motivated them. On Friday, the Ministry of Public Security said it had confirmed that “organizations and individuals from overseas” had been involved, without getting more specific. “Materials and evidence collected by security forces show that the incident took place with the support and guidance of several organizations and individuals from...

Laos, Hmong Victims Rally in Minnesota: Slam Reps. Betty McCollum, Phil Crane, Bush Administration Bureaucrats for Denial of Killing and Atrocities in Laos 3/29/2004 12:41:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Paul Christopher or Anna Jones, 202-543-1444, both of the Center for Public Policy Analysis News Advisory: Jointly released by the Center for Public Policy Analysis, the Lao-Hmong Emergency Crisis Task Force, the United Lao-Hmong Congress for Democracy, Inc., the Hmong Reform Committee, the United League for Democracy in Laos, Inc., Laos Institute for Democracy, the United Lao Action Center, the Lao Nationalist Reform Party, the Lao American Council...