May 7, 2011, Washington, D.C., Vientiane, Laos and Bangkok Thailand
More Hmong protesters have been killed or arrested in Dien Bien province today as Vietnam deploys additional army units and thousands of soldiers and police to seek to contain mass demonstrations and the spread of discontent with the policies of the government in Hanoi, and local communist party officials. Hundreds of additional ethnic Hmong are missing or have disappeared, many have been arrested and loaded onto military trucks where they are being sent to unknown locations in Vietnam or Laos..
Vietnam People's Army troops and security forces have killed at least 21 more ethnic Hmong protesters on May 6-7, in the Dien Bien province area of Northern Vietnam and seriously wounded 132 more according to the Center for Public Policy Analysis, non-governmental organizations and Hmong, Vietnamese and Lao sources in the province and border area. Casualties continue to mount with a total of 49 now know dead since the crackdown by Vietnam's army More Hmong demonstrators have also disappeared at the hands of Vietnamese security forces as Hanoi seeks to seal the remote, mountainous border area, with Laos off from independent journalists.
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Eyewitness video of Vietnamese forces who arrived by helicopter.
