Vietnamese soldiers clashed with ethnic Hmong after thousands staged a rare protest in a remote mountain area calling for greater autonomy and religious freedom, a military source said Thursday.
Hmong hilltribe women sit making clothes with manual sewing machines in front of their house in the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien, Vietnam, in 2007. Vietnamese soldiers clashed with ethnic Hmong after thousands staged a rare protest in the province of Dien Bien area calling for greater autonomy and religious freedom, a military source said Thursday.
The Vietnamese army sent troop reinforcements after the demonstrations broke out several days ago in Dien Bien province in the far northwest of the communist nation, near the border with China and Laos.
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