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Viewing cable 06VIENTIANE396, LAO GOVERNMENT REPORT ON INTERVIEW WITH 22 HMONG

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06VIENTIANE396 2006-05-02 09:16 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Vientiane
VZCZCXRO0436
PP RUEHCHI
DE RUEHVN #0396/01 1220916
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
P 020916Z MAY 06
FM AMEMBASSY VIENTIANE
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9856
INFO RUEHBK/AMEMBASSY BANGKOK 6530
RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 0862
RUEHCHI/AMCONSUL CHIANG MAI 0354
RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 0541
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0083
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 VIENTIANE 000396 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR EAP/MLS, DRL/IRF, PRM 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/02/2016 
TAGS: PINS PHUM PREF PREL KIRF TH LA
SUBJECT: LAO GOVERNMENT REPORT ON INTERVIEW WITH 22 HMONG 
DEPORTEES SHOWS A RELIGIOUS ANGLE 
 
REF: VIENTIANE 321 AND PREVIOUS 
 
Classified By: Ambassador Patricia M. Haslach, reason 1.4 (b) and (d). 
 
Summary 
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1. (C) Embassy has come by a copy of a Lao government report 
on the interrogation of 22 female members of the group of 27 
Hmong deported from Thailand in December. Because of its 
style and content, we believe the document to be authentic. 
The hand-written report provides brief biographical 
background on the 22 and then analyzes events leading to 
their entry into Laos. Compiled by police in Bolikhamsai 
province, where the group was first detained by Lao 
authorities, the document discloses GoL paranoia about the 
22, seeing their Christian religion and their receipt of aid 
from foreign organizations as signals that they were perhaps 
agents provocateur sent to create problems.  It establishes 
credibly that the Lao have the children in detention, have 
known about them all along, and see them as a security 
threat, as we have surmised. It also reveals a previously 
unknown religious element to their arrest and detention, 
further complicating the case. We have provided a copy of the 
report to Embassy Bangkok.  Besides offering a revealing 
insight into GoL thinking, it may be helpful in establishing 
the GoL's complete lack of candor on its detention of the 
group. End summary. 
 
Contents of report 
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2. (C) The photocopied report was passed to us by a Hmong 
contact in Laos, who in turn had obtained it from other 
Hmong. Our contact said it came from sympathetic Hmong in the 
Bolikhamsai government. Titled "Report on the investigation 
of the 22 Hmong people who entered Laos from Thailand," it 
states that it is the result of the investigation made by 
Bolikhamsai provincial police assigned since December 12, 
2005 to looking into the case of the 22 Hmong females.  It 
begins with a lengthy section detailing the names, ages, 
names of parents and siblings, places of birth and residence, 
dates of entry to Thailand from Laos, religion and ethnicity 
of each of the 22 female members of the group of 27 Hmong 
deported to Laos from Thailand on December 5.  The 
information contained is consistent with that provide by 
other sources regarding the group. 
 
3. (C) The second part of the document is entitled the 
"activities" section, and details the movement of the girls 
from the time they fled to Thailand.  From this point the 
document is quoted as translated: 
 
"Activities section 
 
Since 2004, the group received news from Radio Free Asia that 
there was a plan to take in Hmong who had fled Laos from Tham 
Krabok, Khet Noy in Tak province and Houay Nam Khao in 
Petchaboon province (Thailand) in order to establish a place 
for political refugees from the U.S. This caused the Hmong in 
many areas to flee from Laos to reside in Thailand. When they 
arrived in Thailand, the group engaged in the following 
activities: 
-- Studied Thai and English from an American teacher. 
-- Every Saturday and Sunday they listened to religious 
proselytizing from America. 
-- They received assistance, including a quantity of 
materials such as tools and food, which was direct assistance 
from America that was turned over to the Thai to distribute. 
-- In their free time, they engaged in itinerant work to make 
some money, along with Thai Hmong from the provinces. They 
also visited relatives. But every Saturday and Sunday, they 
had to return to listen to the religious proselytizing. 
-- Sometimes Thai Hmong relatives came to pick them up to 
visit, or they went on vacation with other Hmong who shared 
their religion. They went to help build Hmong villages in Tak 
province, which was divided into meeting areas called "Ban 
1," "Ban 2," up to 39, which they claimed were areas 
designated for the Hmong to live. 
 
In summary, the 27 Hmong, 22 of whom were females, were at 
Nam Khao center. 25 persons were at Ban Khem Noy and one 
person left to travel. Whether visiting relatives or doing 
itinerant work, each time they went together. 
 
Observation and evaluation: 
 
VIENTIANE 00000396  002 OF 003 
 
 
 
1. The aforementioned Hmong individuals may have been given 
education and training, indoctrinated, given funds and were 
led along a path. 
 
2. They have gone back and forth many times already and have 
been subjected to propaganda from relatives abroad. They were 
encouraged to develop a list of people for interview to go to 
America. 
 
3. When the aforementioned individuals arrived at Nam Khao 
(Petchaboon province, Thailand), they may have received 
training and documents that are counter to Lao PDR policy, 
which is revealed by the fact that these Hmong received money 
to study Thai, English, the origins of the Christian religion 
and the characteristics of the religion as it pertains to 
their ethnic group. To help spread the religion, when there 
were sick or injured people who had no resources for 
treatment, that family would have to join the Christian 
church or they would not receive assistance. 
 
When they were detained at Khao Kho in Petchaboon province on 
November 28, 2005 to December 5, 2005, there were many Hmong 
held together who cried loudly. The Thai police asked them 
why they were crying. The Thai police gave Christian bibles 
to them, and told them that if they read about Jesus they 
would receive blessings. 
 
4. The aforementioned may have received training and been 
given the assignment to work in the Lao PDR, and to establish 
themselves in small groups of friends. Those Hmong all denied 
any knowledge of Houay Nam Khao, all said their parents were 
deceased, did not reveal their home village or relatives' 
names, and claimed they could not speak Lao and did not know 
how to respond. 
 
In carrying out Step 2 investigation, we were able to gather 
external evidence plus discrepancies in the Hmong testimony, 
which indicates that there was one Thai Hmong in the group: 
  Parents living in Thailand -- 14 individuals 
  Parents deceased - 2 individuals 
  Parents in Laos - 5 individuals 
 
5. The aforementioned may have been tasked by the refugees in 
Thailand to come to Laos and work for a short period. This 
was evidenced by the fact that they had only the clothes they 
wore, and no funds, and they all had the same kind of 
clothes. 
 
Based on their testimony, they said that (Thai) officials 
accused them of being Lao who entered the country illegally. 
But when relatives came to post bond for them in Thailand, 
none of them went back to Nam Khao center. 
  As for Ms. Cha Thao, she is a Thai Hmong from Ban Nam Chua, 
Amphoe Khao Kho, Petchaboon province. Many of them tried to 
cover that up by saying she was a Lao Hmong, born in Ban 
Nonhai, Muang Feuang, Vientiane province. 
  After investigation by officials, Ms. Cha Thao admitted she 
was in fact a Thai Hmong, from Ban Nam Choua, Amphoe Khao 
Kho, but when Thai officials arrested them and an aunt of 
this person came to post bail for her, she refused to go 
home, and said she would go with her friends. 
  Based on testimony by Ms. Pakou Vang (Mai Vang), she knows 
many places, including temples, churches in various 
provinces, starting in Vientiane. She admitted knowing about 
Mr. Somphon, who went to study in Australia and came back to 
Laos to be a priest at Ban Kengsadok, Paksan district, 
Bolikhamsai province. Many times Ms. Pakou Vang told 
officials that if she was released she would get them money. 
If they wanted 200,000 baht, she could get it in one day in 
Vientiane. If they wanted 100,000 US dollars, it would take 
seven days to obtain. 
 
6. Based on the reality at present, there is an American who 
is searching for these Hmong in Bolikhamsai. This is the 
fifth time. And Radio Free Asia has announced that 27 Hmong 
crossed from Thailand, including 22 females, and is asking 
where the Lao officials have taken them. 
 
Solution: 
- Based on the evidence obtained from the investigation, note 
that it is proper and passed the review of the experts. 
Besides, there are still some elements that should be the 
subject of continued investigation. Therefore, our experts 
 
VIENTIANE 00000396  003 OF 003 
 
 
believe the solution is as follows: 
 
Propose to higher levels that they research and resolve as 
quickly as possible 
1. Research the option to push them to return to their 
country. 
2. Research the option for long-term reeducation. 
3. Research the option for the Thai Hmong who have parents in 
Thailand and separate the Hmong who have parents in Laos for 
reeducation. 
4. Reeducate them in Bolikhamsai. 
5. Send them to the Ministry. 
 
Experts recommendation: 
1. Have higher levels provide additional guidance. 
2. Propose sending them to the Ministry of Public Security. 
3. Propose or request funds for subsistence. 
 
(Dated) Paksane, January 19, 2006 
Provincial police command 
(signed) 
Khammanh Saithavisoiuk 
 
Investigation committee 
(signed) 
Phouvong" 
 
Comment 
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4. (C) As crude as it is, this document is consistent in 
style with other provincial reports we have seen. The 
information it contains is also consistent with what we know 
of the 22 females deported from Thailand. Finally, details of 
the interrogation match information provided us in January by 
a Lao government official familiar with the arrest and 
detention of the group. We conclude that the document is 
indeed a copy of the official Bolikhamsai province report of 
the interrogation of the 22 females. 
 
5. (C) The Lao government's paranoia about the children is 
manifest throughout the document. What we found surprising 
was the extent to which the children's religious beliefs 
raised red flags for officials in Bolikhamsai, a province 
that in recent years has been responsible for a litany of 
serious cases of religious intolerance. The religious element 
to Lao suspicions is something we had not previously given 
much weight to, but it now appears Lao authorities may have 
genuinely feared that the children were sent here to sow 
dissent through proselytizing activities. 
 
6. (C) We have passed a copy of the document to Embassy 
Bangkok. It may be useful to pass a copy to UNHCR in Bangkok, 
and eventually Thai authorities as well. At the least, it 
should put to rest any doubts the Thai might have that the 
Lao have not known all along where the children were. End 
comment. 
HASLACH