; (6) the deployment of heavy artillery, including 60mm, 80mm, and 120mm rounds that are randomly fired into suspected Hmong camps during morning, noon, and night; and (7) the ignored United Nations recommendation during the 66th Session in March 2005 in Geneva, where Article 9 of the Convention (C. 21) requested the Lao Government should start an initiative to find a peaceful solution between the Hmong ChaoFa Indigenous Nation and allow humanitarian aid such as food, medicine, and clothes to help the Hmong ChaoFa Indigenous Nation in the rainforest at Hmong ChaoFa State, Xaisomboun Special Zone, Northern Laos as soon as possible; Whereas the LDPR has continued to defy its commitments to international law and reject the requests of State parties and international institutions to visit or provide humanitarian aid; Whereas the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has raised serious concerns about the situation of the Hmong people in Laos since 2003, invoking its early warning and urgent action procedures, urging proper and impartial investigation into the areas, and urging authorities to invite the relevant United Nations mandate holders; Whereas eight United States Senators sent an urgent letter on May 16, 2008, to urge Secretary of State Rice to request Thailand’s Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej’s urgent help to stop the forced deportation of Hmong refugees in Huay Nam Khao and Nongkhai Detention Center, Thailand, back to Laos because the Hmong would face persecution by the LDPR; Whereas, in April 2011, the Committee on the Rights of the Child considered the malnutrition and high incidence of wasting disease in rural areas where Hmong reside an emergency situation; Whereas the CERD continued to voice concerns and recommendations in its review of Laos in 2012, reiterating its previous recommendation that the State party should invite United Nations bodies for the protection and promotion of human rights to visit the areas where members of the Hmong ethnic groups have taken refuge