I see many young people these days wearing CCCP and hammer and sickle insignias on t-shirts and baseball caps, and I can't help but ask: what in the world is wrong with you?? Don't you **know** the depths of the evil that you are celebrating with your choice of apparel?We don't have to open dusty history books to chronicle the horrors perenially part of any communist occupation of a nation, we can point to their actions TODAY and wonder why this is allowed to happen.
Here's a nightmare that, hopefully, can shame the kool kommie kids back to a more balanced point of view, getting them to put aside their red flags and (blood) red dreams and pursue a more humane approach to human rights.
From the Huntington News comes this story of a film documenting oppression of Indiginous Hmong Laotians by the communist government of Laos being successfully screened-- despite a cancellation demanded by Vietnam:
The 6th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues [PFII] is held in the United Nations Headquarters and announced a record of participation by governments, UN agencies, Indigenous representatives and NGOs, over 2500 participants are attending.
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"How can an UN agency, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, obey one member state -- to hinder our voices to be heard, I can not understand this," said Kue Xiong, preseident of the Lao Human Rights Council, one of the sponsors of the other special event which got cancelled upon request by the Vietnamese Mission to the UN.
"We come here because we thought that one of the mandates of the PFII is to raise awareness and to disseminate information on Indigenous peoples, but I see only a silent wall, and no letter to us with a formal explanation why it was cancelled," he said...
...One of the films, "Hunted Like Animals," covers rights abuses documented by Huntington News Network with reporting by Rebecca Sommer and others. The film, produced with the support of the US-based Hmong-Lao community, documents the systematic military aggression against the Hmong ethnic minority hiding in the jungles of Laos, and the reasons why thousands of Hmong from the jungle fled to Thailand. ... “Even though the UN has no access to the over 7700 current Hmong refugees in the camp, and no access to the conflict areas inside Laos — this film brings the words and testimonies of the Hmong Lao out to everyone,” Sommer told HNN.
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Additional High-8 footage, shot and narrated by Hmong hiding in the jungles of Laos, is interwoven into the film like a tapestry, and gives graphic evidence of the ongoing and increasing aggression of the Lao PDR military, including artillery and chemical warfare.
The film can be seen dis-assembled at Youtube; below are links to some of the horrific clips.
It should be seen by as many people as possible, especially by young people who think there's something "cool" or "romantic" about their flirtation with communist idealism. Take a look at what it is like to live in the real thing, kids:
[Warning: extremely gory and disturbing content]"Everyone has heard about the drama of the Vietnamese boat people, but Laos, which became Communist in the aftermath of the events of 1975 in Vietnam, has seen a proportionally larger section of the population take flight. ...
Around 300,000 people (10 percent of the population) have fled the country, including well over 30 percent of the Hmong minority in the mountains (around 100,000 people) and about 90 percent of all intellectuals, technicians and officials. In Communist Asia, only North Korea in 1950-1953 saw a larger share of its population flee the country."
[The Big Black Book of Communism, "Laos: A Population in Flight", pg 575]
