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UN Special Rapporteurs' letter of concern on the ChaoFa Hmong, 2020
UN human-rights bodies raised concerns about the treatment of an isolated Hmong resistance community in Laos.
What happened
In 2020, nine UN Special Rapporteurs and the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances sent a formal letter of concern to Laos regarding the ChaoFa Hmong community.[1]
Sources for this page
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Claim: In 2020, nine UN Special Rapporteurs and the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances sent a formal letter of concern to the government of Laos regarding reported human rights abuses against the ChaoFa Hmong community in the Phou Bia region, including alleged attacks, enforced disappearances, and denial of access to food and safe drinking water; this bundle presents these as documented concerns raised by named UN bodies, not as independently adjudicated findings of this bundle.
- The Secret War in Laos (La Crosse County Historical Society) link, Recent Developments section. Advocacy organisation perspective Source record