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RIP: Revered Hmong Leader Gen. Vang Pao

By Jeralyn, Section Off Topic
Posted on Fri Jan 07, 2011 at 08:49:00 AM EST
Tags: Gen. Vang Pao, Hmoung (all tags)
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Gen. Vang Pao, 81, has died of pneumonia in California. Exiled to America, the revered Hmong leader, regarded as the George Washington of the Hmong, was born on a farm in a mountain village in Laos. He began his career as a teenage translator for the French who were fighting the Japanese in Laos. He then went to French officer candidate school and became a commissioned officer in the French army. During the Vietnam War, he led a secret CIA-sponsored army fighting the North Vietnamese.[More...]

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