Over 14,000 Hmong living at the Wat Tham Krabok refugee camp in the Saraburi province northeast of Bangkok are preparing to relocate to St. Paul, Minnesota, a town that already boasts 25,000 Hmong, more than 10 percent of its current population. St. Paul’s Mayor Randy Kelly was greeted warmly during a recent visit to Wat Tham Krabok and said that this was an excellent first step towards reconciling longstanding Hmong grievances linked to the 1970s U.S. conflicts in South Asia.
