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Monday marks 50 years since the U.S. ended its nine-year bombing of Laos. Traditional textiles with missiles, grenades and attack planes offer a haunting glimpse of the attacks.
A CIA military base was their home during the ‘Secret War’ in Laos. Now Hmong Americans can finally see it again. advertisement Minneapolis Star Tribune ...
A CIA military base was their home during the ‘Secret War’ in Laos. Now Hmong Americans can finally see it again. Long Tieng once housed one of the busiest air hubs in the world in the 1960s ...
As Hmong Americans mark the 50th anniversary of their arrival in the U.S. this year, the role of Hmong women, who were ...
The plane was flying in from Laos with what the military believes could be the remains of Americans killed in a secret battle during the Vietnam War.
US ‘Secret War’ remembered as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visits Laos Al Jazeera looks back at the most devastating period in Laos’s history, when the US waged a years-long ‘Secret ...
America's secret war sent my family fleeing Laos four decades ago. Now, I've just returned to my birthplace to help clear the unexploded ordnance.
The CIA recruited and trained thousands of Hmong people to fight on behalf of Americans during a clandestine operation in Laos during the Vietnam War, known as the "Secret War." Now, those ...
For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics.
LONG TIENG, LAOS – We met in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, not far from the spot on the Mekong River where the Xiong family fled to Thailand one night ...
For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics.