Moua Toua Ter, leader in the Xaysomboune Special Zone stated "We have no where to go and hide.  Women and children are dying and crying out loud for help."  He reported on November 15 that the LPDR was building up military strength and "preparing to attack and wipe us out."  He reported that the governor of Xieng Khouang Province announced and ordered 300 LPDR troops with tanks to exterminate the United States veterans and families in the jungles to the roots. This military activity coincided with the ASEAN meeting held in Vientiane.  Ter reported on December 2, 2004, the LPDR military troops were establishing more military encampments around his group and firing 130 mm and 120 mm at them every day and night.
November 22 Pa Houa Lee in Bolikhamxay Province reported "The military forces, who are surrounding and heavily attacking families and children at Bang Hoy Nam Mak and Phou Na Nouan, are made up of local law enforcement and militias and led by Wa Tou Yang from Xieng Khouang Province.  They fire mortars and rockets to us in the jungles every day and night. We keep moving from one location to another and have no way out to search for food."
Chong Cha Lee wrote to Ruhi Hamid and Misha Maltsev, BBC journalists who visited Borikhamxay Province in March of this year.  He stated "I want to let you two know that the situation we are in is a lot worst than when you came.  The Lao soldiers had begun heavy assault against us since the 29^th of November.  I want to let you know that we had move away from the area you visited.  If you would remember we mentioned to you that if the they know you've visited us then it would be very difficult for us to further gather food.  That's exactly what's happening to us right now.  They are guarding our food sources and also surrounding us. They are suspecting that the outsiders will return to further bring our plight to the world so they are patrolling and trying to get to us as much as possible.  Because we are pleading for humanitarian rescue so they are trying to kill us all before you could get to us.  By that time we will all be dead leaving the empty jungle by itself.  As of right now we are being surrounded by the Lao soldiers, we cannot access the palm husk nor any of the yams therefore we are trying to eat anything such as bamboo shoots and eatable leaves for our survival."
On the 9^th of November, Yang Toua Tao, reported between November 1, and November 7 Lao PDR and Vietnamese soldiers using helicopters attacked groups in the Xaysomboune Special Zone.  In battles lasting up to 48 hours the communists used helicopters to fire upon the people.  He stated that the people with him have been surrounded by LPDR and Vietnamese troops since November 4^th and there is no way to escape.
Despite the fact the plight of these people has been the subject of reports by major news agencies throughout Europe and Asia, and London based Amnesty International has asked for intervention decrying Laos use of starvation as a weapon against these people, the international community lacks the resolve to confront Laos for their inhumane treatment of these people.  Over a decade ago Nobel Prize nominee Dr. Jane Hamilton-Merritt wrote of the atrocities suffered by these people in her book Tragic Mountains. Yet the United Nations, the United States, European nations, or other nations of the free world have not stepped in to bring the genocide of these people to an end.
Soon there will a silence over the jungles of Laos.  Men, women and children who's only offence was the loyalty of their older generation to the United States during the Vietnam War, will be no more.  In other places of the world the weeping of their families and comrades who have not forgotten them will be heard by only the few who care.