However, as a result of their anti-communist involvement, many Hmong were put in danger when, eventually, Laotian communist forces won control of the country. The Armée Clandestine fought Laotian communist forces who had aligned with the Vietnamese-this struggle is known as the Laotian Civil War, one of the several smaller wars that raged alongside the Vietnam War.
As a result, the United States became involved in a proxy war the CIA secretly trained and armed a group of Hmong called the Armée Clandestine to fight the North Vietnamese. Despite this agreement-which the United States never actually signed-America was anxious to stop the spread of communism. The treaty established a ceasefire in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The doctors prescribed anticonvulsants her parents preferred animal sacrifices.The Geneva Accords of 1954 sought to stabilize the French-colonized Southeast Asian countries of Indochina in the tumultuous aftermath of the Korean War.
Lia’s doctors ascribed her seizures to the misfiring of her cerebral neurons her parents called her illness, qaug dab peg–the spirit catches you and you fall down–and ascribed it to the wandering of her soul. The Hmong see illness aand healing as spiritual matters linked to virtually everything in the universe, while medical community marks a division between body and soul, and concerns itself almost exclusively with the former. Parents and doctors both wanted the best for Lia, but their ideas about the causes of her illness and its treatment could hardly have been more different. When Lia Lee Entered the American medical system, diagnosed as an epileptic, her story became a tragic case history of cultural miscommunication. Lia’s pediatricians, Neil Ernst and his wife, Peggy Philip, cleaved just as strongly to another tradition: that of Western medicine. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors. Lia’s parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run “Quiet War” in Laos.
When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover.
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