So this year the SEA Games (The Southeast Asian Games) are going to be held in Vientiane, Laos.
This is the problem.
Laos cut out alot of the sports that are usually part of the competition saying its lack of facilities. Other countries offered to help but they denied any support. They did however take Chinese, Japanese, and of course VIETNAMESE support.
Laos has secretly been training all their athletes in Vietnam.
The sports they have chosen to include in the games are the sports that the VIETNAMESE excel in and have won medals in before.
and here's what I just heard in a radio broadcast run by Laotian-Americans here in the states. I'm just translating. I'd post the video but it's all in Lao so yea.
The Laotian government sent a message to all Laotians abroad that they would like to recruit people to play in their teams.
A Lao guy in Seattle decided to go play for the Laotian soccer team. He spent 9 months training. The first time the team went to Vietnam, they went back to Laos and he was kicked out of the team. Him and the other Laotians from abroad (Germany, and France). He went to appeal it with the head hancho and the Laotian government granted him Laotian citizenship so he can play.
They went back to Vietnam to train again and when he came back they kicked him out of the team indefinitely and told him it was because he had American citizenship. What was the point of granting him dual citizenship in the first place?
The whole time, he says, he was treated like shit along with the German and French Laotians, and they were calling him dumb American.
So it's just curious how the Laotian government granted him citizenship this n that and tried to recruit Laotians abroad, but as soon as they went to VIETNAM things changed.
Alot of Laotians abroad say that the Laotian government is just a VIETNAMESE PUPPET and I swear...this kinda makes me really ashamed of LAOS.
I've always been proud of who I was and I mean, I still am...but that dream of going to Laos and feeling like "home sweet home" is starting to fade away.
Now I understand what my mom means when she would never go back.
Even years after the war and the Pathet Lao took over the country, we (Laotians-abroad) are still considered "traitors" and the "enemies." We'll never be "Laotian."
FUCK COMMIES and FUCK GOVERNMENT PUPPETS.
