Editor. Directed by Deborah Dickson. (05:04 excerpt)

Part of “Global Voices” on PBS. While the war in Vietnam raged in the headlines, a secret war was undertaken in neighboring Laos, where the CIA recruited Hmong tribesmen to help them push back against the North Vietnamese. When Laos eventually fell to the Communists in 1975 and the CIA withdrew, the Hmong became hunted in their own country. Thousands fled across the Mekong River into Thailand where an entire generation grew up in refugee camps.