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The Pathet Lao (Lao: ປະເທດລາວ, romanized: Pa thēt Lāo, lit. 'Lao Nation' [1]), officially the Lao People's Liberation Army, was a communist political movement and organization in Laos, formed in the mid-20th century.
The Laotian Civil War was waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December 1975. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater during the Vietnam War with both sides receiving heavy external support in a proxy war between the global Cold War superpowers.
The Laotian Civil War was a military conflict of the Cold War in Asia that pitted the guerrilla forces of the Marxist-oriented Pathet Lao against the armed and security forces of the Kingdom of Laos (French: Royaume du Laos), led by the conservative Royal Lao Government, between 1960 and 1975.
By February they had occupied the entire Plain of Jars, Long Tieng had been surrounded, and, for the first time since 1962, Pathet Lao forces were camped within sight of the royal capital of Luang Prabang. [8]: 207 Douglas AC-47 gunship. Ominously, PAVN and the Pathet Lao did not withdraw to North Vietnam during the rainy season.
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However, North Vietnam never withdrew from Laos and the Pathet Lao remained little more than a proxy army for Vietnamese interests. After the fall of South Vietnam to communist forces in April 1975, the Pathet Lao with the backing of North Vietnam were able to take total power with little resistance. On 2 December 1975, the king was forced to ...
In the years which followed, he led communist forces against the Kingdom of Laos and U.S. forces. Kaysone Phomvihane with Nicolae Ceauşescu in 1976 Kaysone Phomvihane Museum Kaysone Phomvihane on a 2000 kip banknote from 2011. Kaysone came out of the shadows in December 1975, shortly after the Pathet Lao took Vientiane, and seized control of ...
North Vietnam supported the Pathet Lao to fight against the Kingdom of Laos between 1958 and 1959. Control over Laos allowed for the eventual construction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail that would serve as the main supply route for enhanced NLF (the National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong) and NVA (North Vietnamese Army) activities in the Republic of Vietnam.