Vang Pao
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Vang Pao was a major general in the Royal Lao Army and later a leader of the Hmong American community in the United States.
Vang in 2004
Programs Evaluation Office (PEO) adviser Jack F. Mathews with then Major Vang Pao, commander of the 10éme Bataillon de Infanterie (10 BI), at Nong Net, July 1960.
Insurgency in Laos
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The insurgency in Laos is a low-intensity conflict between the Lao People's Democratic Republic on one side and former members of the Secret Army, Laotian royalists, Hmong fighters, and other highland
Vang Pao
…California. He remained widely respected by his fellow Hmong and was an esteemed elder of the American Hmong people, many of whom experienced the war or the reprisals that followed. Though he was less influential among younger Hmong-Americans who had primarily grown up in the United States, he was considered an influential…
Hmong refugees arrested and forcibly deported to Laos by the Thai army