**** We need to understand before we can help......cont. **** On December 14, 1995 during a POW/MIA inquiry by the "MILITARY PERSONNEL SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES" Congressman Robert Dornan of California accounted a meeting held in the office of Sot Patrosi in Laos during a visit. Sot Patrosi was the Head of the Pathet Lao Communist Headquarters Office. Also attending this meeting was Carol Hanson Hickerson: designer of the POW/MIA Flag, widow of once MIA Marine Capt. Stephen Hanson, and co-founder of the National League of POW/MIA Families. Congressman Dornan accounted Mr. Patrosi saying during the meeting "I have tens of tens of prisoners." This one statement along with the apparent failure of the Pathet Lao and PAVN (North Vietnamese Army) to numerically capture prisoners in Laos (event though it was a top priority) are the primary reasons many believe the United States knowingly left captured Americans behind in Laos during the troop withdraw in 1973. There were no negations ever entered into by the United States and the Laotian Government regarding post-war matters. An Article of War was never declared between the United States and the Pathet Lao which would make any captured Americans left behind in Laos legally viewed as "war criminals": under international law these offensives are punishable by execution or life in prison without parole.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 03:39:10 +0000
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