Editing Hmong people (section)

====Hmong Lao resistance====
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[[File:hmong wedding.jpg|thumb|Hmong girls meet possible suitors while playing a ball-throwing game in [[Laos]].]]

For many years, the Neo Hom political movement played a key role in resistance to the [[Vietnam People's Army]] in Laos following the U.S. withdrawal in 1975; [[Vang Pao]] played a significant role in this movement. Additionally, a spiritual leader, [[Zong Zoua Her]], as well as other Hmong leaders, including [[Pa Kao Her]] or Pa Khao Her, rallied some of their followers in a factionalized guerrilla resistance movement called '''ChaoFa'''<!--sic (no space); boldface per WP:R#PLA --> ([[Romanized Popular Alphabet|RPA]]: Cob Fab, [[Pahawh Hmong]]: {{script|Hmng|𖬒𖬯 𖬖𖬜𖬵}} [[File:ChaoFaPahawh.png|35px]]).<ref>Smalley, William Allen, Chia Koua Vang (''Txiaj Kuam Vaj'' [[File:ChiaKouaVangPahawh.png|35x35px]]), and Gnia Yee Yang (''Nyiaj Yig Yaj'' [[File:GniaYeeYangPahawh.png|35x35px]]). ''Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script''. [[University of Chicago Press]], 23 March 1990. 10. Retrieved from [[Google Books]] on 23 March 2012 {{ISBN|978-0-226-76286-9}}.</ref><ref>Not to be confused with the Thai royal title [[Chao Fa]].</ref> These events led to the [[yellow rain]] controversy when the [[United States]] accused the [[Soviet Union]] of supplying and using chemical weapons in this conflict.<ref name=Tucker>{{Cite journal| author = Jonathan Tucker| title = The Yellow Rain Controversy: Lessons for Arms Control Compliance| journal = The Nonproliferation Review| date =Spring 2001| url = http://cns.miis.edu/npr/pdfs/81tucker.pdf}}</ref>

Small groups of Hmong people, many second or third generation descendants of former CIA soldiers, remain internally displaced in remote parts of Laos, in fear of government reprisals. Faced with continuing military operations against them by the government and a scarcity of food, some groups have begun coming out of hiding, while others have sought asylum in Thailand and other countries.<ref>{{Cite news|first=David |last=Kinchen |title=438 former 'Cob Fab' removed by helicopter after they came out of hiding |date=17 November 2006 |url=http://www.hmongtoday.com/displaynews.asp?ID=2384 |work=Hmong Today |access-date=22 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222133658/http://www.hmongtoday.com/displaynews.asp?ID=2384 |archive-date=22 February 2007 }}</ref> Hmong in Laos, in particular, developed a stronger and deeper [[anti-Vietnamese sentiment]] than their Vietnamese Hmong cousins, due to historic persecution perpetrated by the Vietnamese against them.