page_title: Hmong people
hierarchical_section_title: Hmong people
caption_attribution_description: Taken at Coc Ly market, Sapa, Vietnam 2004
context_page_description: The Hmong/Mong people is an Asian ethnic group in China and Southeast Asia. They are a subgroup of Miao people, and live mainly in southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar. They have been members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization since 2007.
  During the first and second Indochina war, France and the United States' Central Intelligence Agency recruited thousands of Hmong people in Laos to fight against forces from north and south Vietnam and the communist Pathet Lao insurgents. This CIA operation is known as the Secret War.
context_section_description: The Hmong/Mong people (RPA: Hmoob/Moob, Nyiakeng Puachue: "𞄀𞄩𞄰", Pahawh Hmong: "𖬌𖬣𖬵" [m̥ʰɔ̃ŋ˥]) is an Asian ethnic group in China and Southeast Asia. They are a subgroup of Miao people, and live mainly in southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar. They have been members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) since 2007.
  During the first and second Indochina war, France and the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recruited thousands of Hmong people in Laos to fight against forces from north and south Vietnam and the communist Pathet Lao insurgents. This CIA operation is known as the Secret War.
caption: Flower Hmong women in traditional dress at the market in Bắc Hà, Vietnam
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