What is the 30 Year Secret?
"America's involvement in Laos during the Vietnam War, and as a consequence its alliance with the Hmong, has received far less attention, yet is written about and debated with no less conviction. From 1961 to 1975, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) actively recruited the Hmong people living in the highlands of Laos to fight a "secret war". Hmong recruits were trained and given weapons to block communist supplies headed for South Vietnam and served as the primary 'anti-communist' force in Laos. The multi-million-dollar operation, unreported in the American press until 1969, wreaked havoc on the land and its people. When American forces withdrew from Southeast Asia in 1975, thousands of the Hmong were left to flee for themselves in Thailand as refugees and subsequently resettled in the United States, France, Australia and other places around the world. However, they did not all escape and those who remain trapped in the jungles of Laos are being hunted down at this very moment by the Laotion government and beaten, raped, poisoned, tortured and killed for their loyalty to the U.S. government during the war.
The Hmong will likely remain unknown to most Americans, yet their experience cuts to the core of American politics, touching upon issues which have been widely debated throughout U .S history."
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Lyrics:
Delicious Venom - "30-year Secret"(featuring Ly Vangsoua, Doua Vang and Xeev Xwm Vaj on guitar)(Tou Saiko)Thirty years of war
Persecuted and scorned
Behind enemy lines
A small child is born
What will he live for
Fighting for the rest of his life
Gunshots, chemical bombs
Or sliced with a knife
Shrapnel within flesh
Children poisoned to death
Defend the villages
Soldiers killed in combat
A contract that's been cracked
Splitt up, attacked
With no tracks
And they only fight back
For survival reasons
And they wish to the sky
For the will to keep breathing
The jungles are a prison
Scarred into our visions
Now I want you to listen
'Cause our people have risen
Starving for any meal
They kept it concealed
Their blood spills
All over the rice fields
For real
A tragic massacre
Of tears and emotions
That can flood
The Mekong River
To be an ocean
Our people are suffering
And time is running out
(Knowstalgic)I see my mother working late again
Father holding paper 10's
Drama on the corner
We ignore but we relate to them
Stay within the circle
Representin every state we in
Penetrate the system
Now the prison wants to take us in
Listen to my elder folks
Cousin loves to sell his smoke
Sister's in the kitchen
Cookin breakfast to the smell of smoke
Flea market weekends
Sleepin sixty minutes to two hours
Been working overtime
Ain't had no time to take a shower
Family business slow
Still on the go
Blow for blow we slug it out
Against the winter and snow
Ever since existence
we have been survivors
Neglected
Never claimed a country
Just want to live and let live
Now its been thirty years
Since imprisonment in the jungle
For the Hmong
Remind your elders
And educate the young
Laotian government, genocide
Human rights and violation
Clock is running down
To total annihilation
Lift a finger now
Stop procrastinating
Save a child, save a mother
Throw your clock and watch away
The time is now
Stop searching for time
Time is running out
Stop searching for time
The time is now
(Ly Vangsoua)Don't let our people die, save our people,
Save our people, go...
Listen to their cries, voices of Sorrow,
(Doua Vang)Another dying relative
Sleepin life away like a sedative
Death is interactive
Don't it make you feel relative
Children feelin negative
Repetitive survival mode
Spirits from the old
Neglected perspective shows
If we let it
The mind stays infected so..
Memories repress it
Mothers fetuses die
Hold your chin high
Let the wind dry your eyes
Here we go
Levitate, aggravate, penetrate
Let em hate
Escalate what you know
Mental state gotta grow
System teach you to fear
Being bold
Hmong people on the go
Dying slow so..
Do the math with me
Subtract morality, add fatality
Divide broken pride
Equals America lied
Tears blur our visions
So we listen to the violence
She could be the silence
Or the sirens
Divide in corner streets
Fight for the air we breathe
Tears we see
Families we grieve
This is disgusting
Must it
Wipe a life or two
Fallen soldiers yesterday's news
Father's in the grave
Nobody left to fill his shoes
(Tou Saiko & Knowstalgic)Wake up to gun shots!
Silence is just a dream
Wake up to gun shots!
Silence is just a dream
Wake up to gun shots!
Silence is just a dream
Wake up to gun shots!
Silence is just a dream
(Ly Vangsoua) Don't let our people die, save our people,
Save our people, go...
Listen to their cries, voices of Sorrow