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Why did the Communist government want Shong Lue Yang to be killed?
Shong Lue Yang was teaching in the 1960’s to over 300,000 Hmong in Laos. Gradually, Yang chose Hmong and Khmu’ teachers to help him teach and he also built a school. As the news spread of his work, the Communist government heard about Shong and his teaching. They saw Shong as a threat because of his invention of a Hmong writing system, and were out to kill him