CONTINUED USE OF CHEMICAL WARFARE WEAPONS AGAINST HMONG RESISTANCE AND TRIBAL ELEMENTS IN THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
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• Case Number: F-2012-01432
• Publication Date: January 3, 1980

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THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, N T FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE
REPORT GLASS S EyR E T/wNINTEL--NOFORN
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01ST 03 JAN BO
COUNTRY LAOS
SUBJECT CONTINUED USE OF CHEMICAL WARFARE WEAPONS
RESISTANCE AND TRIBAL ELEMENTS IN THE LAO
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
SOURCE
AGAINST HMONG
PEOPLE'S
COMMENT: A NUMBER OF REPORTS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES,
HAVE
NOTED THAT THE MILITARY AUTHORITIES IN THE LAO PEOPLE'S
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (LPDR) HAVE FOR SOME TIME BEEN USING CHEMICAL
HARFARE (Cw) WEAPONS AGAINST THE HMONG RESISTANCE AND TRIBAL ELEMENTS.
THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNTS FROM HMONG REFUGEES SHOWS THAT DESPITE
.DISCLOSURES IN THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA, THE LPDR AND
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM (SRV) FORCES HAVE CONTINUED TO USE Cw
NEAPONS IN THE LPDR.)
2. IN MID-LATE
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AUGUST 1979, HMONG REFUGEE
THEN
A RESIDENT OF BAN NA LUANG (TF0891), PAS VISITING MUANG CHA
LPOR AND OBSERVED A
"JET AIRPLANE" FLY OVER MUANG CHA, MAKE ONE CIRCLE, AND THEN DESCEND
TO AN ALTITUDE OF AROUND 1,000 TO 1,500 FEET. THE PLANE APPROACH-
ED MUANG CHA FROM THE NEST FLYING OVER BAN SON (TF5993), BAN NA XOU
(1F5794), AND BAN NAM NOM (TFB1B7) BEFORE IT BEGAN DISPENSING A
"LlGHT-YELLON SMOKE." THE SPRAY WAS DROPPED OVER MUANG CHA, MUANG
OM (UF1395), AND OTHER PLACES SITUATED IN THE 1.001HILL AREA OF PHOU
BIA (1JF0B99). AFTER COMPLETING ITS RUN, THE AIRCRAFT
MUANG CHA.
COMMENT:
HAVING NO PROPELLER AND MAKING A SOUND
(TF9991)
FLEW EAST FROM
ESCRIBED THE JET AIRPLANE AS
MUCH DIFFERENT THAN THAT OF A
U.S. MANUFACTURED PHANTOM JET wHICh HE nAS FAMILIAR WITH. HE SAID HE
HAD NEVER SEEN THAT PARTICULAR TYPE OF JET AIRCRAFT BEFORE AND FROM
CONVERSATIONS wITH HIS FRIENDS HE BELIEVED THE AIRPLANE NAS
"SOVIET MADE.)
3.
SAID ThE EFFECTS OF THE Cw AGENT ON
THE INHABITANTS IN THE AREA BEGAN TO SHOn WITHIN AN HOUR
AFTER CON-
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(b)(3)
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
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TAMINATION. OVER THE NEXT TwO DAYS 74 PERSONS LIVING IN THE
VILLAGES OF BAN NONG SAVANG (NCA). BAN KHI XANG (NCA), AND BAN NAM
CHA (TF9990) DIED FROM EXPOSURE TO THE CHEMICAL, AS NELL AS LARGE
NUMBERS OF LIVESTOCK. OTED THAT THE EFFECT OF THE Cn AGENT (b)(1)
ON VEGETATION BECAME NOTICEABLE ABOUT ONE WEEK AFTER THE INCIDENT (b)(3)
WHEN THE THATCH GRASS AND SOME OTHER VARIETIES OF LONG LEAF GRASSES
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IN ABOUT SIX OR SEVEN LOCATIONS, EACH LOCATION ESTIMATED TO BE :WIWI
100 SQUARE METERS, BEGAN TO WITHER AND 01E. HE SAID THE GRASSES
APPEARED DRY AND TO HAVE BEEN SCORCHED BY SCALDING HUT MATER.
4.
mHO ExPERIENCEI, THE EFFECTS OF THE Cm AGENT, DESCRIBED
THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS FROM HIS EXPOSURE.
COMMENT:
MAY NOT HAVE RECEIVED A LETHAL DOSE OF THE CHEMICAL. HE SAID
THAT FOLLO6ING THE INITIAL SYMPTOMS OF THE Cm POISONING, ABOUT TWO
DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT, HE BEGAN IMMEDIATELY TO TREAT HIMSELF bi
TAKING OlL.UTED RAM DFIum TWO TO THREE TIMES A DAY UNTIL HE BEGAN
TO RECOVER.) SAID HIS EYES BECAME INFLAMED (ON THE ORDER OF
CONJUNCT1vITIS), SUFFERED FROM A SEVERE HEADACHE, HIGH FEVER, SOME
THROAT AND DIFFICULTY IN BREATHING. HE ALSO EXPERIENCED EXTREME
CHEST PAINS AND AN INCREASE IN BODY TEMPERATURE FROM THE mAlST UP
WHILE BELOm THE mA1ST HE FELT COLDER. HIS LIPS BECAME DRY AND SPLIT
OPEN. HE HAD NO TEARDROPS OR SALIVA; HOMEVER, HE WAS CONTINUALLY
THIRSTY EVEN AFTER DRINKING SUFFICIENT LIQUID.
EXPERIENCED VOMITING AND DIARRHEA.
THAT THOSE HMONG PEOPLE wHO EVENTUALLY
AS A RESULT OF AN INABILITY TO CONTROL
COMMENT:
ALSO
BELIEVED
DIED FROM THE Cm AGENT DID SO
VOMITING AND DIARRHEA. HE
SAID 1HAT THOSE WHO SUFFERED ACUTE VOMITING AND BOWEL MOVEMENT WERE
THE ONES mHO LATER DIED. THERE WAS 1NSuFFICIENT SALINE SOLUTION TO
TREAT THE ILL *NO TO PREVENT DEHYDRATION.) SAID HE ALSO
EXPERIENCED THE FEELING OF BEING "INTOXICATED" AND DESCRIBED THIS
SENSATION AS THAT FELT AFTER TAKING AN DVEPOUSE OF THE ANTI-MALARIA
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DRUG CHLOROUU1NE, THAT IS HE SUFFERED FROM A STATE OF CONFUSION,
DISORIENTATION, AND AN IMPAIRED EQUAL1BRIUM.
U
S. ANOTHER HMONG REFUGEE SAID THAT ON 12 JULY HE WAS
LIVING AT BAN PHA HUAI NOI (TF9893), XIENG KHOLIANG PROVINCE, WHEN HE
WITNESSED A SOVIET JET AIRCRAFT FLY FROM THE DIRECTION OF BAN SON AND
MuANG CHA, MAKE A CIRCLE, AND THEN SPRAY A Co AGENT OVER THE VILLAGES
OF BAN PHA HOUAl NO', BAN THONG HAK (1F9689), BAN THONG KHEuN
(1F9288), mUANG CHE, MUANG ON, THAN ED (UF0492), AND PHA PHAI
(UG1619). COMMENT: THESE VILLAGES ARE ALL LOCATED ALONG A
ROADWAY AND MAY HAVE BEEN THE REASON FOR THE CH BEING USED TO RID
THE AREA OF THE PEOPLE.)
AID THAT IN HIS VILLAGE OF BAN HOUAI
NO1 OVER 100 PERSONS DIED WITHIN FOUR WEEKS AFTER BEING CONTAMINATED
BY THE Cw AGENT, AND ABOUT 500 CATTLE ALSO DIED. HE SAID HE HAD �
HEARD THAT OTHER DEATHS HAD OCCURRED IN THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES
BUT HE DID NOT KNow lhE NUMBER. HOWEVER,
ID CONFIRM THAT HE
ALSO HAD HEARD OF THE Co ATTACK ON MUANG CHA IN AUGUST
COMMENT:
AS NOT
ABLE TO PROVIDE DETAILS ON SYMPTOMS OF THE Co AGENT BECAUSE HE WAS
NOT CONTAMINATED.)
6.
COMMENT:
IN
LATE OCTOBER 1979, A LAO RESISTANCE FORCE OPERATING IN AN AREA NORTH
OF DoNGHEN /ND3246/ AND ALONG THE RHOD SANGHE MOUNTAIN RANGE WAS
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ATTACKED BY A InIN-ENG1NE, ThIN-TAILED AIRCRAFT FIRING Cn ROCKETS.
THE ROCKETS REPORTEDLY EXPLODED IN THE AIR AND DISPENSED A mwHITE
AND PINK COLORED SMOKE" WITCH CAUSED DIZZINESS, NAUSEA, AND SKIN
INFECTION. 1H1S IS THE FIRST REPORTED INCIDENT OF Ch GAS BEING
USED IN THE SOUTH LPDR.)
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