Comments on: Welcome to Vieng Say http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/12/10/welcome-to-vieng-say/ New perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:28:26 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: New Mandala » Classify, define, require http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/12/10/welcome-to-vieng-say/comment-page-1/#comment-13905 New Mandala » Classify, define, require Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:13:49 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/12/10/welcome-to-vieng-say/#comment-13905 [...] In my previous posts, I mentioned Mentur, and his part in the resettlement of the Hmong in and around Vieng Say. His story raises many questions: what made a man’s search for subsistence into an illegal trespass? Why it was possible for the resettlement program to be enforced? What logics of legality and illegality led to his incarceration? To answer these questions, it is important to understand first how land is owned and regulated in today’s Laos. Fortunately, the staff of the Vieng Say lands office were extremely helpful in explaining this to me. [...] [...] In my previous posts, I mentioned Mentur, and his part in the resettlement of the Hmong in and around Vieng Say. His story raises many questions: what made a man’s search for subsistence into an illegal trespass? Why it was possible for the resettlement program to be enforced? What logics of legality and illegality led to his incarceration? To answer these questions, it is important to understand first how land is owned and regulated in today’s Laos. Fortunately, the staff of the Vieng Say lands office were extremely helpful in explaining this to me. [...]

]]> By: Katja Wolff http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/12/10/welcome-to-vieng-say/comment-page-1/#comment-12968 Katja Wolff Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:43:15 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/12/10/welcome-to-vieng-say/#comment-12968 Hi Holly High, I am from the Society for Threatened Peoples in Germany, Asia Desk. We are an International Human Rights Organisation (NGO) and have consultative status with the ECOSOC of the United Nations and participatory status with the Council of Europe. For almost 40 years we have been campaigning against human rights violations and lobbying for the rights of ethnic and religious minorities world-wide. I am currently working on the issue of the Hmong in Thailand and Laos. During my research I found this blog entry. I find it extremely interesting and would thus like to get in touch with you. Can you maybe send me an email so that we don't need to discuss this via blog comments? Thanks a lot!!! Katja Hi Holly High,

I am from the Society for Threatened Peoples in Germany, Asia Desk. We are an International Human Rights Organisation (NGO) and have consultative status with the ECOSOC of the United Nations and participatory status with the Council of Europe. For almost 40 years we have been campaigning against human rights violations and lobbying for the rights of ethnic and religious minorities world-wide.

I am currently working on the issue of the Hmong in Thailand and Laos. During my research I found this blog entry. I find it extremely interesting and would thus like to get in touch with you. Can you maybe send me an email so that we don’t need to discuss this via blog comments?

Thanks a lot!!!
Katja

]]> By: New Mandala » Seminar: tool of oppression or reunification? http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/12/10/welcome-to-vieng-say/comment-page-1/#comment-12343 New Mandala » Seminar: tool of oppression or reunification? Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:50:29 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/12/10/welcome-to-vieng-say/#comment-12343 [...] In my previous post to New Mandala, I introduced Mentur, and his claims that he had been held in seminar in 1995 and in 2006, the first time in Vietnam and Sam Nuea, and the second time in Vieng Say. To investigate his claims further, my first port of call was the group of buildings that he had indicated as one of the locations in which he was held. A path led from the backyard of the hotel up a short incline to the buildings. In total there were only five buildings. The doors were padlocked from the outside, and the windows were boarded over. There were no clear perimeter and no guards. In fact, the place seemed deserted. But there were some signs of life – fresh cigarette boxes in a bin, clothes drying on a line, vegetables growing in fenced yards. If this was a prison, it was like no prison I had seen before: no guns, no razor wire, no turrets. The most visible sign that this was a place of detention was, in fact, literally a sign. On the second building, a notice informed visitors that: When coming to visit the accused: [...] [...] In my previous post to New Mandala, I introduced Mentur, and his claims that he had been held in seminar in 1995 and in 2006, the first time in Vietnam and Sam Nuea, and the second time in Vieng Say. To investigate his claims further, my first port of call was the group of buildings that he had indicated as one of the locations in which he was held. A path led from the backyard of the hotel up a short incline to the buildings. In total there were only five buildings. The doors were padlocked from the outside, and the windows were boarded over. There were no clear perimeter and no guards. In fact, the place seemed deserted. But there were some signs of life – fresh cigarette boxes in a bin, clothes drying on a line, vegetables growing in fenced yards. If this was a prison, it was like no prison I had seen before: no guns, no razor wire, no turrets. The most visible sign that this was a place of detention was, in fact, literally a sign. On the second building, a notice informed visitors that: When coming to visit the accused: [...]

]]> By: Sisouk Vongdeuane http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/12/10/welcome-to-vieng-say/comment-page-1/#comment-11987 Sisouk Vongdeuane Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:20:02 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/12/10/welcome-to-vieng-say/#comment-11987 The art is good, but the statues do not look like Laotian soldiers, they look like Vietnameses. The art is good, but the statues do not look like Laotian soldiers, they look like Vietnameses.

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