{"id":2347,"date":"2019-09-25T20:13:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T00:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2020-05-04T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:04:57","slug":"hof090-thomas-vang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/hof090-thomas-vang\/","title":{"rendered":"HOF090: Thomas Vang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Vang est n\u00e9 dans le nord-ouest du Laos et a grandi dans la province de Sayaboury. Pendant l'intensification de la guerre civile lao en 1968, sa province natale, Oudomxay, a \u00e9t\u00e9 envahie par le Pathet communiste lao. Sa famille et tous ses proches ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9vacu\u00e9s vers la province de Sayaboury. En mai 1975, alors qu'il \u00e9tait encore dans son lyc\u00e9e, le Laos a \u00e9t\u00e9 repris par le Pathet Lao. Sa famille et sa parent\u00e9 ont d\u00e9m\u00e9nag\u00e9 \u00e0 nouveau en Tha\u00eflande en tant que r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s parce que un bon nombre de ses proches \u00e9taient dans l'arm\u00e9e royale lao. Il n'\u00e9tait plus s\u00fbr de rester.<\/p>\n<p>En tant que r\u00e9fugi\u00e9 laotien Hmong en Tha\u00eflande, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 form\u00e9 par des m\u00e9decins anglais et australiens pour devenir ambulancier, aidant les m\u00e9decins de la Croix-Rouge internationale \u00e0 fournir des services m\u00e9dicaux aux r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, en particulier dans son camp de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, Soptuang, dans la ville de Maejarim de Nan Province.<\/p>\n<p>En f\u00e9vrier 1980, sa famille s'est r\u00e9install\u00e9e au Canada et \u00e9tait parrain\u00e9e par la Christian Reformed Church de Burlington, en Ontario. Au printemps 1981, il a d\u00e9m\u00e9nag\u00e9 \u00e0 Kitchener pour aider \u00e0 organiser et \u00e0 diriger une \u00e9glise chr\u00e9tienne Hmong. Sa situation personnelle \u00e9tait toujours en difficult\u00e9, car il a travaill\u00e9 avec beaucoup d'effort afin de terminer ses \u00e9tudes secondaires, puis a obtenu un dipl\u00f4me d'histoire \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 de Waterloo en 1991 et un dipl\u00f4me en administration des affaires \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 Sir Wilfrid Laurier en 1994. Il est dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en p\u00e9riode de r\u00e9cession \u00e9conomique et a travaill\u00e9 dans le secteur des assurances et de la finance. Il a \u00e9galement pass\u00e9 son temps libre \u00e0 rechercher et \u00e0 \u00e9crire une histoire Hmong, intitul\u00e9e: Une histoire des Hmong: des temps anciens \u00e0 la diaspora du monde moderne.<\/p>\n<p>Il est mari\u00e9 et lui et sa femme Mao ont six enfants.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videowrapper\"><iframe class=\"video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wf6rkRA6Xmc\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\">&lt;span data-mce-type=&quot;&rdquo;bookmark&rdquo;&quot; style=&quot;&rdquo;display:&quot; inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;&rdquo; class=&quot;&rdquo;mce_SELRES_start&rdquo;&quot;&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;span data-mce-type=&quot;&rdquo;bookmark&rdquo;&quot; style=&quot;&rdquo;display:&quot; inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;&rdquo; class=&quot;&rdquo;mce_SELRES_start&rdquo;&quot;&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Vang was born in northwestern Laos and grew up in Sayaboury province. During the intensification of Lao civil war in 1968, his home province Oudomxay was overran by the Communist Pathet Lao. His family and along with all of my relatives were evacuated to Sayaboury province. In May, 1975 while he was still in [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32,169],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laotian","tag-laotian","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsoffreedom.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}