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Artist chronicles the Hmong migration
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Thao's description from the exhibit: The communist soldiers came to Hmong villages and massacred whole villages. Women were raped, men tortured, and babies slammed into objects or the ground. After ravaging the village the soldiers dismembered the corpses.  (#26, 1996, oil on canvas, Copyright Cy Thao, courtesy The Minneapolis Institute of Arts)

Thao's description from the exhibit: The communist soldiers came to Hmong villages and massacred whole villages. Women were raped, men tortured, and babies slammed into objects or the ground. After ravaging the village the soldiers dismembered the corpses.

(#26, 1996, oil on canvas, Copyright Cy Thao, courtesy The Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
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