Laos, Vietnam Human Rights Defender Mourned At Arlington Saturday, 24 December 2011, 3:10 pm Press Release: Centre for Public Policy Analysis

Laos, Vietnam Human Rights Defender Mourned At Arlington Cemetery

December 23, 2011, Arlington, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Fresno, California

Center for Pubic Policy Analysis

Flowers, notes and candles were placed today at the Lao and Hmong veterans’ monument in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC., by mourners wishing to honor and memorialize the life and tragic death of former French Colonel Robert Jambon. Mr. Jambon, a decorated Indochina war veteran previously honored by French President Nicholas Sarkozy, recently took his life in Dinan, France, in protest to ongoing human rights violations directed against the Laotian and Hmong people in Laos and Vietnam.

The Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA), the Lao Veterans of America, Inc., the Lao Veterans of America Institute, the United League for Democracy in Laos, Inc., and a coalition of Lao and Hmong non-governmental organizations (NGOs), cosponsored memorial events in Arlington National Cemetery. They issued statements honoring the life and legacy of retired French Colonel Robert Jambon and his valiant fight for human rights and freedom for the Laotian, Hmong and Vietnamese people of Indochina. http://www.centerforpublicpolicyanalysis.org

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