The Centre for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) was established in Washington D.C. in 1988 and describes itself as a non-profit research organization focused on foreign policy, national security, refugee and international humanitarian issues. It has been described as an "outspoken supporter" of the Hmong people in Laos and Vietnam.[1]
The CPPA says it conducts public policy events and briefings in the US Congress and Washington DC on a range of public affairs issues. It says it organizes research and fact-finding missions in the United States and abroad with US policymakers to gain first-hand information about key issues, developments and events.[2]
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The CPPA accused Laos and Vietnamese troops of killing four Christian Hmong women in Xiangkhouang Province, Laos in 2011. CPPA executive director Philip Smith said Laotian and Vietnamese forces were hunting down Christian and animist believers.[3][4] The group has also campaigned for the release of three Hmong American men it said in April 2011 had been falsely imprisoned for four years.[5] In 2011, the CPPA campaigned for former Hmong leader and Royal Lao Army Lieutenant General Vang Pao to be given a memorial service in Arlington Cemetery after US authorities refused to grant him the right to be buried there. Pao was arrested in the US in 2007 on charges of plotting to overthrow the Laos Government.[6]
The CPPA said that Vietnamese troops had killed 28 Hmong protesters, with hundreds more missing, following protests in Vietnam near the Laos border in 2011.[7] The Vietnamese government acknowledged there had been clashes but denied anyone had been killed.[8]
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