LAOS | CIA Secret War Veterans

Fathi Ja, 32, an ethnic Hmong and the son of a CIA Secret War veteran, walks through the jungle in the Vientiane province of Laos on 27 November 2007. Fathi Ja's wife and two children were killed two months earlier during a clash with the Lao People's Army. Thousands of Hmongs who fought or collaborated with the American CIA until communists took over the country in 1975 remain living hidden in the jungles of Laos

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Fathi Ja, 32, an ethnic Hmong and the son of a CIA Secret War veteran, walks through the jungle in the Vientiane province of Laos on 27 November 2007. Fathi Ja's wife and two children were killed two months earlier during a clash with the Lao People's Army. Thousands of Hmongs who fought or collaborated with the American CIA until communists took over the country in 1975 remain living hidden in the jungles of Laos

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