Phichit Kriangsakphichit [SEP] conflict
Phichit Kriangsakphichit
Lieutenant-General Luang Kriangsakphichit (personal name Phichit Kriangsakphichit, ; 20 July 1896 – 29 July 1964) was a former army commander in the Franco-Thai War. He also served as Minister of Defence, Minister of Public Health, Member of Parliament, and was a member of Khana Ratsadon.
also Deputy Prime Minister, Major General Douangchay Phichit, with other top ranking officials was killed in a plane crash in the north of the country. The officials were to participate in a ceremony to mark the liberation of the Plain of Jars from the former Royal Lao government forces. Their Russian-built Antonov AN 74–300 with 20 people on board crashed in Xiengkhouang province.
Government and politics Hmong conflict.
Some Hmong groups fought as CIA-backed units on the royalist side in the Laotian Civil War. After the Pathet Lao