A group of ten members of the U.S. Congress, led by Wisconsin's senators -Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl - asked the United Nations to send a fact-finding mission to Laos to investigate alleged human rights abuses against hundred of Lao-Hmongs who have recently emerged from the jungles to surrender to the government.
In a letter to U.S. ambassador, John Negroponte, Senators Feingold and Kohl said many of their Hmong constituents fear that those people are in serious danger and allege that many have been killed, including women and children.