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Pathet Lao |
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Pathet Lao (pät`ət lou), left-wing nationalist group that was ultimately victorious in the Laotian civil war that began in the mid-1950s. The name was first used in 1950 by Lao forces after the they joined the Viet Minh Viet Minh (vēĕt` mĭn), officially Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh ..... Click the link for more information. 's revolt against the French, and it became the generic term for the Lao Communists. In 1956 an official party, the Neo Lao Hak Sat (Lao Patriotic Front) was formed. In the 1960s and early 70s, the Pathet Lao fought the U.S.-supported government and finally won control of Laos in 1975. |
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| In the face of rapidly expanding Soviet support to the PL and DRV involvement in Laos, White Star had two strategic goals: "to keep the Mekong Valley out of Pathet Lao control, thus easing the pressure on the Thai government, and consolidating a bargaining position vis-a-vis the communist bloc in the increasingly likely event of a new international conference. The Pathet Lao were drawn mostly from the lowland ethnic Lao; the CIA trained and equipped their ethnic enemies, the Hmong, who lived in the mountainous north. Despite such rather grotesque excesses of partisan language, the book's principal value lies in this accounting of the brutal retribution suffered by voiceless and illiterate Hmong peasants at the hands of the state following the 1975 Pathet Lao take-over. |
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