400 in tribe leave jungle, surrender
From Times Wire Reports
About 400 members of the Hmong hill tribe minority emerged from the jungles of Laos and surrendered to the communist government after decades on the run, the U.S.-based Fact Finding Commission said.
The group’s chief and a few guerrillas returned to the jungle after the group, most of them children, surrendered.
Hmong guerrillas served a pro-American government in the Vietnam War era before communists took over in 1975.
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