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BAN KHEK NOI, Thailand (AP) - It was the fear of persecution that drove Yang Pahua to flee her native Laos — twice.
Yang, 17, is one of 21 girls and five boys whose stories have drawn new attention to the plight of the Hmong, an ethnic minority. Their families first fled Laos in 2004 for an informal refugee settlement in the Thai province of Phetchabun. The youths were sent back to Laos in December 2005.
In June this year, it emerged that a dozen of them had run away again. They have now made it back to Phetchabun.
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