Laos yesterday rejected a request from an international human rights group that they release Hmong leaders in detention, saying that it was not holding any Hmong refugees deported from Thailand.New Yorkbased Human Rights Watch yesterday urged Lao... ...full story at The Nation
from The Nation on Tue, Oct 28 2008
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