Buk Nut wrote on 10^th Feb, 2014 at 11:25am:


You are well inform.Right now the goverment trying to compensate them , well kinda luring them to produce little
Japanese.

So can you tell me something? Were the hilltribes doing well before the opium eradication program? What kind of effects did the opium eradication program have on the hilltribes and how did it change their lifestyle?

peterpan wrote on 10^th Feb, 2014 at 12:03pm:


The hilltribes survived for hundreds of years alone without the interference of national governments, so I don't think they were starving.
They only started getting malaria, starving and dying after they were forced down from the mountains. In the past they had practiced slash and burn agriculture which was probably bad for the environment though, so the government saw them as a pest.

Anyways, if they move down into society it will be just like Thailand where one's parents are hill people and the children only learn to speak the language of the schools and then forget about their parents and then just disappear into regular society. Moving them down is only gonna kill them off slowly, you could call it cultural genocide.

Perhaps the main point is that these people choose their own path and direction they want to take without interference from outside influences and are then free as birds to make their own decisions.

So what nationality are the hill people or Hmong, are they indigenous to Laos or another country?

Sounds like they may be nomadic, moving from one place to another, nothing wrong with that though.

I have reading about the Hmong on the internet and it seems that it is a battle for them just to survive.