* Vang Pao " Meo Maquis ", Indochina Wars leader of Hmong people

It became a Special Guerrilla Unit led by General Vang Pao.

General Vang Pao led the Region II ( MR2 ) defense against Vietnam People's Army ( NVA ) incursion from his headquarters in Long Cheng, also known as Lima Site 20 Alternate ( LS 20A ).

* Vang Pao, CIA and Royal Laotian Army General of Hmong decent

Supported by Phoui Sananikone, General Phoumi Nosavan and the Hmong Leader, General Vang Pao.

* Major-General Vang Pao

He became a one of the eight founders of the Neo Hom in 1981, along with Prince Sisouk na Champassak and Vang Pao.

Vang Pao ( Hmong: Vaj Pov ; December 8, 1929 – January 6, 2011 ) was a Lieutenant General in the Royal Lao Army.

Vang Pao was born on December 8, 1929, in a Hmong village named Nonghet, located in Central Xiangkhuang Province, in the northeastern region of Laos, where his father, Neng Chu Vang, was a county leader.

When Vang Pao was taking an entrance examination, the captain who was the proctor realized that Vang Pao knew almost no written French.

Vang Pao insisted that the captain told him the answers, and that the captain did not actually guide his hand on the paper.

Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, said that Vang Pao did not express any embarrassment for his cheating.

After WWII, French GCMA authorities recruited Vang Pao as a lieutenant during the First Indochina War to combat the Viet Minh ( archive video by Col. Jean Sassi ).

While in exile, Vang Pao assembled other Lao and Hmong leaders from around the world to create the United Lao National Liberation Front ( ULNF ), also known as Lao National Liberation Movement or simply the Neo Hom, to bring attention to atrocities happening in Laos and to support the political and military resistance to the government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

In the mid-1990s, Vang Pao, aided by influential American diplomatic allies and vast numbers of Hmong-Americans, halted forced United Nations-sponsored repatriation back to Laos of thousands of Hmong refugees in Thailand.

In 2001, Vang Pao began to moderate this position, publicly advocating normalization of U. S .- Laotian relations in hope of alleviating the human rights abuses by the Laotian government against the indigenous Hmong people.

On June 4, 2007, following a lengthy federal investigation labeled " Operation Tarnished Eagle ," warrants were issued by U. S. federal courts ordering the arrest of Vang Pao and nine others for allegedly plotting to overthrow the communist government of Laos, in violation of the federal Neutrality Acts.

Following the issuance of the warrants, an estimated 250 federal agents representing numerous U. S. federal law enforcement and other agencies conducted simultaneous raids on homes, offices and other locations throughout central and southern California, arresting Vang Pao and the other nine.

Vang Pao's fellow friends, including Hmong, Mienh, Lao, Vietnamese, and Americans individuals who knew Vang Pao protested the arrest and rallied throughout California, Minnesota, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin.

Bracelet winners who first achieved fame in other fields include French actor / singer Patrick Bruel ( in 1998 ), Danish soccer player Jan Vang Sørensen ( in 2002 ) and American actress Jennifer Tilly ( in 2005 ).

Prior to his arrest, Vang Pao was slated to have an elementary school in Madison, Wisconsin named after him, a proposal that met with opposition over Alfred W. McCoy's allegations that Vang had been involved in war crimes and drug trafficking, with Gary Yia Lee and other scholars strongly disputing his claims Vang's June 2007 arrest later led the Madison School to reopen discussion on the school's naming.

On September 18, 2009, the federal government dropped all charges against Vang Pao, announcing in a release that the federal government was permitted to consider " the probable sentence or other consequences if the person is convicted .”

A dramatic event during the takeover of Laos by the communists was the evacuation of Vang Pao and other Hmong leaders by air from Long Tieng.

What nobody had anticipated was the tens of thousands of Hmong left behind in Long Tieng and Laos would follow Vang Pao and other Hmong leaders to Thailand.

Throughout Vang Pao's residence in the U. S., the Hmong leader has diplomatically opposed human rights violations by the communist government of Laos against the Hmong.

Several of Vang Pao's high-level U. S. supporters have criticized the California court that issued the arrest warrants, arguing that Vang Pao is a historically important American ally and valued current leader of U. S. and foreign-based Hmong.

On July 12, 2007, under significant pressure from Vang Pao's Hmong and influential American supporters, the California federal court ordered the release of the Hmong leader on a US $ 1. 5 million bond secured by property owned by members of his family.

The Hmong were joyful to hear this news ; many had participated in numerous protests over several weeks in California and elsewhere, calling for Vang Pao's release from the date of his incarceration until his release under bail nearly a month later.

Vang Pao, who battled diabetes and heart problems, died aged 81 of pneumonia with heart complications on January 6, 2011, at Clovis Community Medical Center His eldest son, Chao Francois Vang, said he had been admitted to the hospital on December 26, 2010, after attending Hmong New Year celebrations in Fresno.

Traditional Hmong funeral services for Vang Pao were scheduled to be held for six days, starting February 4, 2011, at the Fresno Convention Center.

The U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), to disrupt these operations in northern Laos without direct military involvement, responded by training a guerrilla force of some thirty thousand Laotian hill tribesmen, mostly local Hmong tribesmen along with the Mien and Khmu, led by Royal Lao Army General Vang Pao, a Hmong military leader.

One of the troopers in the relief column marching from Luang Prabang was a young Hmong named Vang Pao.

On 14 May, Vang Pao and Jerry Daniels were evacuated secretly by helicopter to Thailand and the air evacuation came to an end.

There were teething problems – air crews were expected to fly C-47s by day as well as AC-47s at night ; gunners burned out guns ; munitions were fired just for resale value of the brass ; Vang Pao was initially reluctant to employ them for fear of friendly casualties.

During the Lao Civil war in the 1960s and 1970s Hmong were recruited by the CIAs ‘ secret army ’, commanded by Hmong General Vang Pao.

In 1987, his son, Prince Bảo Vang, and the royal family of Vietnam accompanied his father's remains, which were removed from Africa and brought home to Vietnam in a traditional ceremony to rest in the tomb of his grandfather, Emperor Dục Đức .< ref >

There is also a Norwegian stave church, moved here from Vang, Norway in the mid-19th century.

Valdres also includes the municipalities Nord-Aurdal, Sør-Aurdal, Øystre Slidre, Vestre Slidre, and Vang.

View of Oppdal Church also known as " Marit Vang " ( by Daniel Northall-28 Dec 2005 )

Old farms with the name Þórshof are also found in Enebakk, Gjerdrum, Jevnaker, Lørenskog, Løten, Sigdal, Torsnes, Trøgstad and Vang.

The Valley has also produced many famous poets such as Gary Soto, current California Poet Lureate Juan Felipe Herrera, David St. John and Burlee Vang.

The publisher also has an imprint for children called Enfant, with which they have published the Moomin works of Tove Jansson and Pippi Longstocking comics by Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman.

Formerly, before a process of municipality mergers, it also contained the municipalities Romedal, Vang, Furnes and Nes.

* Cheut: Ban Na Phao and Tha Sang, Boualapha District ; others probably also in Pha Song, Vang Nyao, Takaa ; originally from Hin Nam No and Vietnam

For a long time, the most common form of kuy teav / hủ tiếu contained only slices of roast pork for protein and no seafoods — only a few restaurants specialized in hủ tiếu Nam Vang in its original form, which also included liver, intestine, tongue and ground pork.