For years, Cambodians, Vietnamese and Lao people in Minnesota have said they’ve struggled to get specific recognition in ...
An international effort is underway in rural areas of Laos, where 80 percent of the population lives, to remove the bombs.
The Mekong still flows past Vientiane broad as history, but the riverfront ... like me—imagine they could win the war in Vietnam by subjecting Laos to such indiscriminate destruction?
records to give a definitive account of the secret war in the tiny Southeast Asian nation of Laos, which lasted from 1961 to 1973, and was the largest covert operation in U.S. history. The ...
Milwaukee mother deported to Laos, a country she has never been to, where she doesn’t know anyone and doesn’t speak the language - ‘The United States sent me back to die,’ Ma Yang, a mother of five, s ...
is a remembrance of Operation Barrel Roll and the start of the darkest chapter in Laos’s modern history. Operation Barrel Roll formed a key component of the Secret War on Laos, so-called because ...
The plane was flying in from Laos with what the military believes could be the remains of Americans killed in a secret battle during the Vietnam War. Service members wearing white gloves carefully ...
Many Hmong people fought for the U.S. during the “Secret War,” a CIA ... to honor Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese Minnesotans’ contributions to state and national history by specifically ...
Three homeless teenagers in war-wracked Laos in 1969 find shelter in a once-grand farm manor that has been turned into a crumbling, makeshift hospital. Cries of patients are echoed by the scream of ...