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Insurgency in Laos
Part of the Third Indochina War
Date
2 December 1975 – Present (to a lesser extent since 2007)
Location
Southern Laos (royalists and rightists); Central and Northern Laos (Hmong rebels)
Belligerents
Lao PDR
Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Supported by: Vietnam
Vietnam People's Army (alleged direct involvement & intervention)
Soviet Union (until 1989)
Lao Resistance Movement[1]
Hmong insurgents
Supported by:
Thailand (until 1990)
United States (until 1990)
Neo Hom (1981–2007)[2][3]
Royalists:
Lao National Liberation Front
Royal Lao Democratic Government (1982)
Supported by: Royal Lao Government in Exile China (until 1988)[4] Khmer Rouge (until 1999)
Democratic Kampuchea (until 1979)
Party of Democratic Kampuchea (1981–1990)
Rightists:
United Front for the Liberation of Laos
Supported by:
Thailand (early to mid–1980s)
Casualties and losses
Over 100,000 Hmong civilians killed[5] 300,000 displaced[6][7][8][9]
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Indochina Wars
Masterdom
First
Second
Laotian Civil War
Cambodian Civil War
Third
Khmer Rouge–Vietnamese
Cambodian Conflict
Cambodian–Thai border
Sino-Vietnamese
Sino-Vietnamese border and naval conflicts
Hmong insurgency
FULRO insurgency against Vietnam
Thai–Laotian Border War
The insurgency in Laos is a low-intensity conflict between the Laotian government on one side and former members of the Secret Army, Laotian royalists, and rebels from the Hmong and lowland Lao ethnic minorities on the other. These groups have faced reprisals from the Lao People's Army and Vietnam People's Army for their support of the United States-led, anti-communist military campaigns in Laos during the Laotian Civil War, which the insurgency is an extension of itself. The North Vietnamese invaded Laos in 1958 and supported the communist Pathet Lao. The Vietnamese communists continued to support the Pathet Lao after the end of the Laotian Civil War and the establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.[10] At least 100,000 Hmong civilians were killed as the result of Laotian governmental policies, in what has sometimes been referred to as the Hmong genocide.[5][11]
While severely depleted, the remnants of an early 1980s-era, and 1990s-era, Royalist insurgency has been kept alive by an occasionally active guerrilla force of several thousand or so successors to that force. In June 2007, Vang Pao was arrested in the United States for an alleged plot to overthrow the Laotian communist government. His arrest led to an end of various attempts to overthrow the Laotian Government by the Hmong people, the royalists, and right-wing rebellions.
^"UCDP - Uppsala Conflict Data Program". ucdp.uu.se. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
^"The Thwarted Overthrow of Laos Government By American Hmong". Global Politician. 14 June 2007. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
^"Laos' controversial exile". BBC News. June 11, 2007. Archived from the original on June 17, 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
^Edward C. O'Dowd (16 April 2007). Chinese Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War: The Last Maoist War. Routledge. pp. 186–. ISBN 978-1-134-12268-4. Archived from the original on 16 January 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
^ ab"37. Laos (1954-present) - University of Central Arkansas".
^Statistics of Democide Rudolph Rummel
^"UCDP - Uppsala Conflict Data Program". ucdp.uu.se. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
^"UCDP - Uppsala Conflict Data Program". ucdp.uu.se. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
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^"Land Concessions and Postwar Conflict in Laos". online.ucpress.edu. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
^"The Forgotten Genocide: Hmong And Montagnards Face Violent Religious Persecution". 14 October 2021. Archived from the original on 7 April 2024.
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