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LOS ANGELES, August 7 (Compass Direct News) – Soldiers, police and others have killed at least 13 Christians in Laos in the past month in a swarming crackdown on Hmong villagers falsely accused of stirring rebel dissent, sources told Compass. In the sweep, encouraged by communist village leaders and others who have falsely accused the Christians of joining the separatist forces of Gen. Vang Pao, authorities have arrested and imprisoned about 200 members of a 1,900-strong church in Ban Sai Jarern village, Bokeo province in northwestern Laos. Among those killed last month was Neng Mua, a Christian who slipped back to his native Fay village after hiding in the mountains from the police round-up. On July 7 he went to a local villager’s house to beg for food, but his one-time friend instead shot him dead as a suspected member of the “liberation army,” a Christian source said. Police have searched intensively for Christians in rice fields and mountains and are shooting them on sight, said the source, who requested anonymity. “Many Christians were killed and badly injured,” he said. “Women and children were arrested and sent to prison.”