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A Father's Assassination
Khou Yang’s father, a well-known Hmong soldier, was assassinated by the Communist Pathet Lao in the 1980s. Her mother died at the hands of the Communists when she was a little girl. Decades later, the pain of her parents’ deaths still haunts her.
This excerpt is from Twin Cities PBS's documentary Minnesota Remembers Vietnam: America's Secret War.
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The Pathet Lao carefully cornered him and killed him. Even now I think about it.
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Submitted From: St. Paul, MN
Story Subject: Family
About Minnesota Remembers Vietnam: America's Secret War
In the shadows of the Vietnam War, the CIA conducted a secret war in Laos that relied on Hmong soldiers to prevent the threat of communism from spreading deeper into Southeast Asia. Tens of thousands died, both in the fight and in the escape.
Minnesota Remembers Vietnam: America's Secret War explores the untold, turbulent history.
Story Themes: America's Secret War, Assassination, Death and Loss, Family, Hmong, Khou Yang, Pathet Lao, Relationships, Saint Paul, Secret War, Sia Her, Sia Ying Her, Special Guerrilla Unit, St Paul
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