The Thai government prohibited many Hmong from working, so they had to live in the camps. Many Hmongs were unemployed for over a decade and they had to eat what they could grow in their gardens that they had. To add to the trouble in the camps, the Thai government would sometimes victimize camp inmates. In 1982, at the camps, Bandits started to attack the Hmongs that were entering and leaving the camps to go to the fields. They were prey on the Hmong women and attack them and then raped them in the fields. This occurred to many who were raped by the same bandits. The Hmongs in Ban Vinai then armed themselves with axes, hoes, and knives and hunted down the bandits. Within a weeks time they killed nearly 100 bandits (Quincy, 197).

Many Hmong fled Laos when the Pathet Lao took control of Laos. They then remained in Thailand before they were able to travel and live in France, U.S., Canada, and Australia. The majority of the Hmongs resettled in Laos while thousands settled in the other countries (Quincy, 200).