UN steps in to pacify upset Hmong families

The unearthing of hundreds of graves where thousands of Hmong refugees once lived near a Buddhist temple in Thailand has upset the Hmong families creating a big controversy.

United Nations has decided to step in and will send a human rights expert who will travel to the Twin Cities next month to listen to upset Hmong families. The expert will hear the testimony about whole episode and the hearing will be at the University of Minnesota, where the Human Rights Program has taken up a project to study and help resolve the issue.

Program director Barbara Frey says the hearing is next step. She says the U.N. expert is interested in the issue because it affects many indigenous communities throughout the world.

Hmong families are hoping for an agreement that would prevent grave desecration in the future.