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Thailand starts repatriating Hmong people

Published on December 28, 2009

Thai security agencies Monday morning began the repatriation of Hmong displaced people from the refugee camp in Phetchabun, the Defence Ministry spokesman said.

Col Thanatip Sawangsaeng, the Defence Ministry spokesman, said soldiers, police and Interior Ministry officials started repatriating the Hmong people from the Ban Huey Nam Khao centre in Khaokho district. He said only those, who volunteered to return to Laos, were repatriated since early morning.

He said some Hmong were still hesitating and others wanted to wait to be resettled in a third country.

The Hmong people, who volunteered to leave, were transported in military trucks to the 3red Cavalry Division in Phetchabun's Lomsak district and they would be transported in buses to a border checkpoint in Nong Khai and further transported to Paksun in Laos.

The Nation