Da Ginevra, l'Alto Commissario per i Rifugiati ha chiesto di interrompere le operazioni.

(Epa/Narong Sangnak)

Hmong refugees look on out from a military truck leaving from Ban Huay Nam Khao camp to Laos in Phetchabun province, northern Thailand, 28 December 2009. Thailand on on 28 December 2009 began deporting 4,000 ethnic Hmong refugees to Laos despite international appeals to the government to reconsider the involuntary repatriation to an uncertain future. The first batch of 448 Hmong were taken from Huay Nam Khao camp in Phetchabun province to buses that will carry them to Nong Khai province where they will cross the Mekong River on the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge into neighbouring Laos, said Thai Army Colonel Thana Jaruwat, spokesman for the Internal Security Operations Command.