given small amounts of rice to eat and vegetables about once a week.  After three months living there, a 13 year old girl was raped by two soldiers.   On December 5, 2005 they were suddenly ordered to leave the encampment.  When one group lingered behind the soldiers shot into the encampment killing two six-year-old girls.

Moua Toua Ter and a handful of other leaders did not surrender. They plan to remain in the jungle.

The Fact Finding Commission and others have made pleas to the U.S. Congress, the U.S. State Department, and the United Nations to intervene on their behalf to insure their safe passage out of the mountains and humane care upon their surrender.  There is little hope the Lao government will allow the U.N. or any aide organization to monitor or allow access to the people, even though they offer ample resources for the care for them.

This group is part of the group who surrendered in June 2005. This is not the last group. There are still people hiding in the jungles. At this point and time, it is unsure how many are still in hiding.

The Fact Finding Commission has been unable to confirm the reports but have been told over three hundred people from a group in Vang Vieng province also gave themselves up to the Lao government in the last few days. 

The Fact Finding Commission is dedicated to exposing the plight of the veterans of the U.S. Secret War who have hid in the mountains and jungles of Laos for the past thirty years to escape the retribution of the communist Lao government for their loyalty services to the United States during the U.S. Secret War in Southeast Asia.