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The Lao Issara (Lao: ລາວອິດສະລະ lit. ' Free Laos ') was an anti-French, nationalist movement formed on 12 October 1945 by Prince Phetsarath. [1] This short-lived movement emerged after the Japanese defeat in World War II and became the government of Laos before the return of the French.
The Lao Issara provisional assembly under Phetsarath proclaimed the deposition of the King and appointed Phetsarath as "Head of State". As the French retook control of Laos, Phetsarath fled in April 1946 to Thailand, where he led the Lao Issara government-in-exile. The group was dissolved in 1949 and its former members were allowed to return to ...
Encouraged by the Americans, he sought to repair Thailand's relations with France, and shut down the Lao Issara bases. The Lao Issara could now only mount operations into Laos from territory controlled by the Vietnamese Communists, but this came at a political price which the non-communist Lao Issara leaders, Phetxarāt and Suvannaphūmā, were ...
The main weakness of the Lao Issara has been cited to be that it always remained a small urban-based movement, failing to connect with the rural population of Laos. In a last desperate attempt to legitimize their government the Lao Issara asked King Sisavang Vong to re-ascend the throne as constitutional monarch, to which he agreed. [23]
The party was established by members of Lao Issara in 1945. [1] Led by Phoui Sananikone, the party was involved in post-war governments, with Phoui appointed Minister of Health, Education and Welfare in 1947, and served as Prime Minister in 1950 and 1951. [1]
On 1 November 1945, Souphanouvong signed a Mutual Assistance Agreement between Lao Issara and Viet Minh. During the battle of Thakhek on 21 March 1946, Souphanouvong and his forces were defeated by the French and as a result, he was wounded and fled across the Mekong River to Bangkok, Thailand. There, like other Lao Issara leaders, he remained ...
For the most part, the effective components of the Lao Issara armed forces consisted of Vietnamese residents of the towns of Laos, who either had received weapons given them by the surrendering Japanese troops—sold by the Chinese Nationalist soldiers who occupied northern Laos under the 1945 Potsdam Conference agreements—or looted from ...
After the Lao Issara leadership disbanded its ALDL guerrilla forces and an amnesty was declared for their members in October 1949, Sing returned to Laos and joined the French-run Laotian National Army (French: Armée Nationale Laotiènne – ANL), which enabled him to resume his own military career. In the spring of 1953, Captain Sing became ...