Vientiane - Three US congressmen visited Hmong refugees who were deported to Laos from Thailand last month despite international concerns that the returnees would face persecution at home, state media said Monday.
"There is no indication of discrimination or harassment or mistreatment of the people in Phalak village," Eni Faleomavaega, chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, said at a press conference in Vientiane on Saturday.
The Hmong are an ethnic minority group that sided with the US military in its "secret war" against communism in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s. Tens of thousands of Hmong fled to Thailand to after the communist forces took over Laos in 1975.
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