March 3rd 07, 07:13 PM
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Still a Secret War
Daryl Hunt wrote:
"HD Radio Fan" wrote in message
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Laos: Still a Secret War
January 19, 2007
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Before me on hands and knees were hundreds of men, women, and children
crying and screaming for me to save them from communist soldiers.
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Lao and Vietnamese government soldiers ambushed them on April 6, 2006,
while
searching for food in the forest. The massacre resulted in 26 killed and 5
wounded. Only one adult male was killed, the other victims were 8 women
and
17 children. In the days that followed, 5 infants died because their dead
mothers could not breast-feed them. This is only one small incident out of
thousands reported and documented since 1975.
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Some speculate the Lao military is just using them for live fire
exercises.
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http://www.worldpress.org/Asia/2641.cfm
My God, it saddens me to no end. I won't say why. But there are reasons
why many of us based out of Thailand both PCS and TDY should despise
President Ford and Congress in 1975.
Why? Come on...
dxAce
Michigan
USA
Operation Frequent Wind 1975
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