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Second Place
Tomas van Houtryve International Herald Tribune and The New York
Times
"The CIA's Forgotten Soldiers"
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Four decades ago, the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency hired thousands of jungle warriors, mostly from the hill-dwelling
Hmong ethnic group, to fight communists on the fringes of the Vietnam War.
Veterans of that covert operation and their families are still living
isolated in the jungles of Laos. They are ragged, hungry and regularly hunted
by the Lao People's Army.
Ethnic Hmong descendants of CIA Secret War veterans
walk through the jungle in the Vientiane province of Laos on 28 November
2007.
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