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Growing Up in a Thai Refugee Camp

Children in the refugee camps had to grow up fast. Sia Her shares a few of her formative experiences as a young child in Thai refugee camps.

This excerpt is from Twin Cities PBS's documentary Minnesota Remembers Vietnam: America's Secret War.
Learn more at the bottom of the page.

They would either hit you or they could put you in jail for a period of 24 hours.


 

Biographical Details

Story Subject: Refugee

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, Ban Vinai, Growing Up, Hmong, Refugee, Refugee Camp, Saint Paul, Secret War, St Paul, Thailand

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