March 10, 2008
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A Hmong organization collected testimony in St. Paul Sunday on the desecration of Hmong grave sites in Thailand. The Minnesota chapter of the National Hmong Grave Desecration Committee is gathering the testimony in preparation for a national conference in North Carolina later this month. The group has been working since 2005 to resolve a dispute with Thai officials over the exhumation of nearly 1,000 Hmong graves. The bodies were dug up without the permission of relatives and many were then cremated without authorization. The graves were located in a traditional Hmong cemetery near the Buddhist temple in Thailand where many of the families had once lived as refugees. Michael Yang is spokesman for the group. He says collecting testimony from victims' families remains critical to resolving the dispute.
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