How the Unites States Screwed Over the Hmongs

I remember being in Laos when the war was beginning to take shape. I thought to myself, "How awful these Vietnamese must be to kill everyone..." But that was my misinformed, ignorant attitude from a Hmong farmer.

Years later, I would finish college in the united states and study political structures and history. I've read several documents, including the "Pentagon Papers" which are now infamous detailing Vietnam.

One thing I have learned is that the Vietnamese people were simply fighting to retain their country and culture. It was the French and Americans who were imposing themselves on Asian soil.

Americans have this centric idea that everything they conjure up is morally correct for the rest of the world... This isn't so. In the case of Vietnam, Cold War tensions between Russia prompted them to send secret agents into Laos and Cambodia to catalyst a War.

NORTH AND SOUTH VIETNAM NEVER WANTED A WAR. However, due to American pressure and the claims of a Russian-North Vietnamese attack, that never happened, the South conceded to US demands.

THE HMONG WERE NEVER INVOLVED, BUT WERE LIED TO by US officials. The Ho Chih Mhin Trail doesn't even extend into Hmong territory. But US bombers, umarked and disguised would occasionally bomb Cambodia and Laos, and then blame the Vietnamese. This is a fact that can retold by many officials, many of whom ARE Americans.

The Americans would propagandize to the Hmong and surround villages that the VC's were coming to take their land. When in reality, the war did not even affect them, until they decided to get involved.

Americans can never deal with a problem, they simply send it away. That was the case with the Hmong. They didn't take us in as promised, we had to fight for our rights to enter the Unites states some 10 years later, due to political pressure.

We're here because of Americans and we won't let them forget that. We are NOT Americans, nor will we ever be. We won't lose our heritage as they did. Don't be so ignorant as to judge us according to those who have ingegrated poorly. We're here to stay, so deal with it ...