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The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
The Bamboo Experience
Phone:
+856 20 56 968 889

Hours:
Sunday8:30am - 2pm, 4pm - 9pm
Monday8:30am - 2pm, 4pm - 9pm
Tuesday8:30am - 2pm, 4pm - 9pm
Wednesday8:30am - 2pm, 4pm - 9pm
Thursday8:30am - 2pm, 4pm - 9pm
Friday8:30am - 2pm, 4pm - 9pm
Saturday8:30am - 2pm, 4pm - 9pm


The Laotian Civil War was fought between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government, with both sides receiving heavy external support in a proxy war between the global Cold War superpowers. It is called the Secret War among the CIA Special Activities Division and Hmong veterans of the conflict.The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theatre for other belligerents during the Vietnam War. The Franco–Lao Treaty of Amity and Association transferred remaining French powers to the Royal Lao Government , establishing Laos as an independent member of the French Union. However, this government did not include representatives from the Lao Issara anti-colonial armed nationalist movement.The following years were marked by a rivalry between the neutralists under Prince Souvanna Phouma, the right wing under Prince Boun Oum of Champassak, and the left-wing Lao Patriotic Front under Prince Souphanouvong and half-Vietnamese future Prime Minister Kaysone Phomvihane. Several attempts were made to establish coalition governments, and a tri-coalition government was finally seated in Vientiane. The actual fighting in Laos involved the North Vietnamese Army, U.S. troops and Thai forces and South Vietnamese army forces directly and through irregular proxies in a struggle for control over the Laotian Panhandle. The North Vietnamese Army occupied the area to use for its Ho Chi Minh Trail supply corridor and as staging area for offensives into South Vietnam. There was a second major theater of action on and near the northern Plain of Jars. The North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao eventually emerged victorious in 1975, as part of the general communist victory in all of former French Indochina that year. A total of up to 300,000 people from Laos fled to neighboring Thailand following the Pathet Lao takeover.After the communists took power in Laos, Hmong rebels fought the new government. The Hmong were persecuted as traitors and lackeys of the Americans, with the government and its Vietnamese allies carrying out human rights abuses against Hmong civilians. The incipient conflict between Vietnam and China also played a role with Hmong rebels being accused of receiving support from China. Over 40,000 people died in the conflict.The Lao royal family were arrested by the Pathet Lao after the war and sent to labor camps, where most of them died in the late 1970s and 1980s, including King Savang Vatthana, Queen Khamphoui, and Crown Prince Vong Savang.
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