Mr. President. Minnesota is home to some 9.000 Hmong. a distinct ethnic group whose members originally came from the mountains of Laos. The Hmong. better known to many Americans as the "Meo." have come to the United States not as immigrants but as refugees fleeing the most brutal sort of terror and mass murder. At a time when we have become numbed to stories of systematic e..termination campaigns. whether carried out in Cambodia. Afghanistan. or elsewhere. it is worthwhile to recount the story of the Hmong. The Hmong were caught up in the conflict in Indochina. and they fought with distinction in Laos against North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces in support of our war effort.
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