Bulletin Of Concerned Asian Scholars, Volume 28, Issue 1 (1996-01). pp. 52-63.
Language:
English
Abstract:
Reviews Jane Hamilton-Merritt's 'Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992' (1992). This work is a major English publication on the relationship between Hmongs and US intelligence and military operations in Laos, but the author shows a strong partisan bias by misrepresenting facts to support her thesis that the Hmongs are suffering systematic persecutions and genocide in the Lao People's Democratic Republic and have not received sufficient moral and financial support, in spite of their collaboration with the French and the United States during the first (1945-54) and second (1954-75) Indochina wars.