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Faces of the Unreached in Laos: Southeast Asia's Forgotten Nation

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This is an excellent resource book on the ethnic hilltribe peoples on Laos. Incidentally, the war against the Hmong people still is going on today in Xieng Khoung province where the Laos government is using chemical and biological warfare against these people -- 300,000 have been killed by the government in the past two decades, at least 50,000 killed from biological warfare supplied by the Vietnamese. These people were asked to fight on behalf of America, and promised they would be taken care of if the war went badly. Unfortunately, the state department never had any intention of winning this war, just dragging out the war for the benefit of Dow Chemical and other multinationals profiting from the war. There are very few books about Laos, and almost none about the Hmong people. On top of this , many hilltribe people in Laos and Vietnam are being persecuted and killed for their conversions to Christianity.

An excellent resource. I've read other books by this author, so I've been waiting for this one to come out. I had no idea there was such ethnic diversity in Laos! You'd be hard-pressed to find some of this information anywhere else.

The book is an exhaustive research completed by Asian Minorities Outreach covering numerous topics relative to the peoples of Laos.

Every people group is covered with topics such as: geographic location, population, religion, number of christians, prayer needs, & interesting stories of culture.

The book is a must-read for anyone who has the slightest interest in Laos or its peoples. It is, in my opinion, the authoritative resource on the unreached peoples of Laos.

Shockingly, none of the official reviews of this book note that it is a racist, Christian supremisist tract, expressly intended to convert the people of Laos to "the teachings of Jesus Christ." The book is critical of all non-Christian religious beliefs, as well as Catholic beliefs, and encourages readers to go to pray for the people of Laos to become Christians and go to Laos as a missionary to convert the various ethnic groups, who the authors believe are tragically headed for Hell. It is suprising that none of the reviews mention this since the book is very clear about its agenda. Buyer beware!