Immigration of the Lao Iu Mein :: Laos Thailand

Immigration of the Lao Iu Mein I thought it would be an kindle idea to enlighten and inform people about the Lao Iu Mein and our military operation of immigrating to the U.S. as well as the challenges we have to overcome. I interviewed my parents, Lao Iu Mein refugees who immigrated to the united States from Thailand. Through this interview, I had a chance to hear for the first meter the story of my parents struggles and experiences as they journeyed to a betoken where they became aliens and how that place is now the place they call home. During the 1960s and 70s, Laos became engulfed in the Vietnam War. The U.S. government also got involved by supporting the anti-Communist forces and getting the tribes in Laos to help them. The Iu Mein, as well as other minority tribes, provided the U.S. with armed manpower, intelligence, and surveillance. In 1975, the community forces rose in victory as the Iu Mein people began to escape to their homeland. My father said that the evidence my family, as well as most of the Iu Mein in Laos, ran away was because they didnt compulsion to be under the new Pathet Lao government. Escaping was not easy to accomplish. many an(prenominal) of my parents friends who were caught trying to escape were taken to prisons, tortured, and most of them were killed. My parents were terrified of the Vietnamese soldiers and prayed that cipher would happen to them, their brothers, sisters, parents, and their son (my brother) who was 8 years old at the time. They had to hightail it during the night, pass through the jungles and onto boats traveling across the Mekong River. When they reached Thailand, my parents and those who escaped with them were taken to refugee camps. The camps were fenced with spinous wire and guarded by armed Thai soldiers. The refugees were given a curfew that only allowed them to stay out before 10 pm. If they were caught disobeying curfew, they would be trounce and taken to jail. The camps recei ved food and supplies that were provided by the United Nations Organization. My parents said that in the camps, their lives were still hard although they felt safer. My mother said that the one affaire they worried most about was the fact that they wouldnt continue their farming to mount food, something that had been part of the daily lives before the camp.