Trading values

President Bush shows off his values by promoting trade with Laos. Think he means this Laos?

Witnesses and victims in Laos have reported that the Communist Lao government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR) and the Communist Vietnamese government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam have continuously conducted the ethnic cleansing war and genocide against people in Laos, especially Hmong ethnic people in Xieng Khouang Province, Borikhamxay Province, Van Vieng areas, Vientiane Province, Xaisomboun Region, and in other remote areas in Laos, from 1975 to 2004. Witnesses and victims in Laos reported that the Communist Lao and Vietnamese soldiers killed over 1,000 Hmong people in Laos between July 2003 and February 2004, and captured more than 500 Hmong people, including men, women and children. The Communist soldiers raped many women. The Communist soldiers tortured, hit and killed many people who surrendered to the Communist soldiers. Victims and witnesses in Laos reported that the Communist Lao government of the LPDR and the Vietnamese government have killed more than 300,000 people in Laos from 1975 to 2004. In 2004, the "Killing Fields," ethnic cleansing war, and genocide against Hmong people are still going on.

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That's Republican values, people, rewarding genocide and endless human rights violations with normalized trade status.