Khmuic Arrival As Refugees From Laos
The Khmuic people are indigenous Southeast Asians. The center of their population cluster in present-day Laos. They were by and large absorbed by the later arriving Tai ethnicity, except for small populations that migrated to the mountainous regions of Laos during the Tai migration into the region. Most of these ethnic groups entered Thailand recently as refugees from Laos around the outset of the Vietnam War. An exception is the Mlabri, who are a nomadic people whose dwindling population has straddled the forests along the Thai-Laotian border for quite some time.
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