Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Laos, Vietnam troops kill Hmong Christians


LAOTIAN and Vietnamese troops have killed four Hmong Christian women after confiscating their Bible, a US rights group says, condemning growing persecutions of people for their faith in Laos.

The Centre for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) said today the unarmed highland Hmong women were "summarily executed" on Thursday in north-eastern Xieng Khouang province by soldiers from a special 150-member unit of the Lao People's Army (LPA) led by Vietnamese secret police and military advisers.

The government troops confiscated the group's only Bible, "brutally and repeatedly raped" at least two of the younger women before shooting them at point blank range with automatic weapons in the head and torso, it said.

Their husbands and 26 children were forced to witness the killings and have since disappeared after being beaten and tied up.

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