MORE ON WISCONSIN HUNTER MURDERS

Follow the link to a NY Times story that gives some background o the Wisconsin hunter murders. The alleged shooter is a Hmong, part of a large community of Hmong who have settled in the St. Paul, Minnesota area. While the article focuses on the cultural divide between Hmong and the largely White, Northern-European descended folks of that part of Wisconsin where the shootings happened, it does not shed any light on the specifics about the lives of the victims and the life of the alleged shooter. Apparently, he was a former member of the Army National Guard who emigrated to the US 24 years ago and is a naturalized citizen. There is some question as to whether the white hunters used racial slurs against him and, more importantly, whether they fired first.

The article is worth reading, though, for it's examination of a little-known subject, the removal of the Hmong from Laos by the US government because they were our allies against the Communists and faced persecution after our withdrawal from Southeast Asia, and how they are faring in their process of integration into American life.