Every day for more than two months, five soldiers in the black-and-khaki uni form of the Pathet Lao stood guard at a large mud hut in a Red-held village near the Plain of Jars. Inside, Lieut ...

The Pathet Lao are entitled to present their own candidates, but Red Prince Souphanouvong—the other Deputy Premier—has already denounced the process as illegal.

Flags will fly at half-staff across Wisconsin on May 14 to honor Hmong-Lao veterans who fought alongside the U.S. in the Vietnam War.

Trying to survive meant living in constant fear and being faced with difficult choices. At the end of the Secret War, Hmong women and children often surrendered to the Pathet Lao—but trying to ...

Captured and at the mercy of an increasingly cruel enemy, German-born US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler was left with no choice but to attempt a daring escape from the Pathet Lao prison camp in which ...

In 1975, the Communist Pathet Lao took control of the government ending a six-century-old monarchy and instituting a strict socialist regime closely aligned to Vietnam.

In 1977, the Pathet Lao's Operation SamKieng "cleansing" campaign targeted "reactionaries" and the Hmong for extermination. And an estimated 250,000 refugees began new lives in America. The Hmong in ...

1975 - The Pathet Lao - renamed the Lao People's Front - seizes power and replaces the monarchy with a communist government.

Servants of God Mario Borzaga and Paul Thoj Xyooj were killed in hatred of the faith in April 1960. Guerilla fighters of the Pathet Lao, the group which martyred Father Mario Borzaga and Paul Thoj ...

THE FIRST LAO rice wine available to the public in the United States is made just outside Seattle. It’s called Village Ghost sato, and its spirit might stay with you.