; (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; (4) the arrest and subsequent disappearance of Hmong-Americans Hakit Yang, Cong Shi Neng Yang, and Trillion Yunhaison, during a 2007 visit to Laos; (5) the arrest and subsequent disappearance of Lao activist Sombath Somphone in December 2012, whose whereabouts are still unknown; and (6) the disappearance of Minnesota Lao-Americans Souli Kongmalavong, Bounthie Insixiengmai, and Bounma Phannhotha in January 2013; Whereas the repatriation of Hmong refugees from Thailand since 1990, leading to more than 8,000 Hmong forcibly sent back to Laos to suffer further discrimination, has resulted in the detention or disappearance of these refugees once in Laos, such as— (1) the deportation of Zoua Yang and her 27 children from Thailand in December 2005 after the group was arrested attending a Christian church in Ban Kho Noi, Phetchabun Province, Thailand, where upon arrival back in Laos, Ms. Yang and her children were detained, after which the whereabouts of much of the family are still yet unknown; and (2) the case of Kha Yang, arrested after his second forced return from Thailand in 2011, after which he disappeared and remains missing to this day; Whereas the violent military campaign of the LDPR against the Hmong ChaoFa, who refused to flee the country or surrender to the government for fear of arrest or death that began in 1975, saw about 7,000 Hmong indigenous men, women, and children out of more than 100,000 Hmong ChaoFa forced from their villages to the rainforest in the Hmong ChaoFa State, Xaisomboun Special Zone, Northern Laos; Whereas this campaign is ongoing and the Hmong ChaoFa continue to be hunted by the Lao military and Vietnamese mercenaries, and are now numbering less than 1,000, and are still living on leaves and roots, unable to farm in their nomadic situation