Whereas the Hmong ChaoFa indigenous people, a peace-loving nation, existed more than 5,000 years in greater Asia and Southeast Asia, with their own distinct language, culture, religion, and national flag; Whereas the Hmong ChaoFa Indigenous Nation are the descendants of Hmong Great King Chi-You (Great Grand Father) and Joualidou was his Kingdom in 2600 B.C., and San-Miao Kingdom (now called Southern China), and Prince Nraug Na and Princess Gao Youa were the founders of the Great Kingdom of Jars (now called Plain De Jars), Xieng Khoung Province, Laos; Whereas the Hmong nation was allied with France during the French Indochina era for the French colonial empire from 1946 to 1954 under the command of Major Roger Trinquier; Whereas the Hmong people also allied with Thailand and the United States as the frontline troops to stop the annexation and colonial occupation of the region from the Pathet Lao regime and the Vietcong-North Vietnam military in Laos during the Vietnam war era, about 1960–1975, where more than 40,000 Hmong lost their lives; Whereas when Thailand and the United States withdrew their troops, the Hmong nation suffered from persecution and racial discrimination and were labeled as the enemy of the Pathet Lao or Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR) and Vietnam because of the loss of thousands of lives and countless actions that were perpetrated by Thailand and the United States both in Laos and Vietnam during the Vietnam war era, 1960–1975; Whereas the LDPR has shown a history of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances, such as— (1) the imprisonment of Reverend Naw Karl Mua and two foreign journalists in June 2003 for their documentation of the Hmong in the Xaisomboun Special Zone; (2) the arrest of activists Thao Moua and Pa Phue Khang in June 2004 for orchestrating protests; (3) the arrest of activist Sompema Khantisouk in 2007 for speaking out against ecologically harmful development