The communists tried to encourage the Lao people to create a basis to fight their leaders. They must help and stay close to those Lao leaders they have picked that held grudges against their own leaders. The hand-picked individuals became permanent members of the central Lao communist party and were taught how to fight and to conduct themselves as true communists when taking actions. For example, good candidates included those who were mad because their sisters, brothers, parents, sons or relatives got killed or detained by their enemy; and those who were in difficulty but were very ambitious. Those folks were easy to approach and infiltrate, because they believed in the ads and took the call for struggle very seriously. The messages were also delivered to the rural population who lacked contacts with the government. This was done by dispatching teams of data gatherers to the field to collect information, stay close to the local residents and talk to them or pay them to do things that were not allowed by the government. Being on the opposition’s side, the communists provided weapons for the fight. When the fight started, damages started piling up and created more intense hate within the community. At that point, the communists sent in supporting troops and took over as planned. The cease-fire negotiations that took place on January 27, 1973 in Paris between the US and North-Vietnam took place without the attendance of Laos, North-Vietnam’s collaborator. The Lao communists didn’t have the right to attend, and had to wait for instructions from North-Vietnam and for that country to share some of its benefits. However, with North-Vietnam’s victory, the benefit that Lao communists got this time was only an opportunity to deliver their country on a golden plate to their superiors, in accordance with the plan laid out by Ho Chi Minh, the founder of the Indochina Communist Party. This was some form of debt repayment for the blood of North-Vietnamese soldiers who died in Laos while fighting for the red Laos. North-Vietnam then violated the July 20, 1954 and July 23, 1962 cease-fire agreements that prohibited foreign troops from interfering in the internal affairs of neutral Laos. North-Vietnam invaded Laos openly without any fear of and any concern for the rest of the world.
[Please read the plan to dissolve the Vientiane faction by the Lao communists, the close first-hand servants of North-Vietnam. This plan created dissension within the Lao community; it formed the basis for the North-Vietnamese to take over Laos as its neo-colony]. Prince Souvanna Phouma was like a soccer player who abandoned his original team and joined a new one. But he didn’t know the game plan of the new team. He just thought that, as a royal prince, he could do anything he wanted. This was an out-of-date thinking, because the world has evolved and is now under two political regimes: democratic regime and communist regime. Lao communists were going after the princes and the kings. They didn’t like the old Laos’ three elephant head flag that stood for the three Lao princes, and replaced it with a red flag with hammer crossed with a sickle –the current Laos’ flag. The LPDR flag ,The flag of the Laos PDR shown next to the flag of the Indochina Communist Party. The Laos’ flag with a “Ka Deuane” (moon) logowas first introduced on December 2, 1975. Once Prince Souvanna Phouma decided to join hands with the communists, he lost all credit and meanings, and just became a tool that served the communists’ policy and interests. An old Lao proverb used to say, “United we survive, parting ways we die.” This was really true. Prince Souvanna Phouma pulled himself away from the Vientiane faction to rally with Lao leaders who were closely knitted with communist North-Vietnam –Kaysone Phomvihane, Kham-Ouan Boupha and Phoumi Vongvichit, the keys that allowed communism to open the door to Laos. The most glaring evidence applied to Tiao Souvanna Phouma and Tiao Souphanouvong, two princely brothers with high education from France, definitely classified among the Lao elite, who initiated the fight to recover independence from France. After their deaths, none of them got any single statue cast and shown in a public place to memorize their role in Laos’ history. Only statues of Kaysone Phomvihane, the “born in North-Vietnam and grown in Laos” leader can be seen today. [According to reliable sources, Kaysone’s father was a Vietnamese whom the French sent to Laos as a teacher; he brought his son Kaysone with him]. This was because the Indochina Communist Party (ICP) said so. ICP ordered that monuments be built to honor Kaysone as a national hero, because he was the one who signed the friendship treaty between communist Vietnam and communist Laos on July 18, 1977 that allowed communist Vietnam to control Laos for 25 years (until 2002) with unlimited 10-year extensions after that. The Lao communist party has many army generals, and many educated and capable cabinet ministers. Early in the game, none of those, however, was named Minister of Justice. That cabinet position went instead to Kham-Ouane Boupha, a man highly regarded by Kaysone Phomvihane because he used to act like “a submissive Minister of Defense” to him. This appointment was made when the Lao communists have gained full power and was part of their plan to dismantle the Vientiane faction. The Minister of Justice in effect has full power over death penalties decisions. He has the authority to sentence anybody to death in a one party regime, with no room for appeal. Please read Gen. Kham-Ouan Boupha’s statements in the section, “How to keep the Champa flower blooming.”
Gen. Kham-Ouan might have been a victim of North-Vietnam’s tactics based on his tricky plan to attract high-ranking Lao officials away from their jobs and get them executed at the Vieng Xay re-education camp. The same plan also pushed a lot of people to immigrate overseas. Gen. Kham-Ouan was worried when he saw people become poorer and deprived of leaders, education, skill, and expertise to the point that the whole country of Laos is now rated one of the poorest countries in the world. Furthermore, Laos is now also a Vietnam’s follower, and is allowing a lot of Vietnamese in. With no work to do, Lao natives have to look for jobs, sell their bodies abroad, and get married with Vietnamese and citizens from neighboring countries in order to survive. As more and more Lao people immigrate overseas, more and more Vietnamese are coming in to occupy lands for free (or buy them at very low costs). Foreign contractors in every field are pouring in to work on our natural resources that will likely entirely evaporate in a not too distant future. Long-Term Plan to Colonize Laos In the end of 1981, I had a chance to interview a Lao refugee family who just arrived in the USA. The conversation went as follows. - “When did your family immigrate to Thailand?” - “About five months ago.” - “How come you were able to come to the US so fast?” - “Because our children sponsored us. I also used to serve in the Royal Lao Army” - “Why did you take so long to leave? Why didn’t you come in 1975?” - “We were dying to leave, but we didn’t know the language, had nobody to show us the way, and no one to rely on. Finally, we realized we couldn’t live on when there was no freedom; we were under constant surveillance and bullied all the time. They said that we ‘Patikane’ have no right to be Lao and continue to own what we used to own. All those things, they said, we inherited them because we were ‘selling our country’ and serving capitalist interests.” - “Why aren’t you the owner of your possessions?” - “The pro-Vietminh Lao communists are in full control. Everything belongs to the State. They keep saying we were CIA agents. That’s why we decided to leave. It’s better to die somewhere else, rather than being harassed all the time.” According to the news, many North-Vietnam-instigated measures have taken place, including moving the Vietnam/Laos border line 20 kilometers westward (from the original border line), and multiple development plans involving road construction, lumber cutting, starting new villages, displacing residents to make room for new Vietnamese military bases or new Vietnamese civilian dwellings, prohibiting Lao citizens to walk by the new construction sites, etc. These measures are part of the long-range plan to permanently occupy Laos.
As a result, all those children born after the signing of the 25-year Vietnam-Lao friendship treaty by Kaysone Phomvihane will be half-Vietnamese kids who would have been fully trained in communist doctrines and ready to actively administer Laos as a new province of communist Vietnam. Before long, the history, customs, traditions and beliefs of the Lao people would be gone for sure, making the Lao a people without country, subject to constant pressure and under the control of the lone communist party. These are the reasons that prompted many Lao citizens to leave their country and test their luck somewhere else in an effort to rebuild a new –albeit highly uncertain– life abroad. Communist Vietnam is in control of all the armed forces, leaving the Laos PDR no armies and no heavy weapons to defend itself, except for local security guards and policemen equipped only with Ak 47 guns with a shooting range of less than 25 yards, and small hand guns. A Lao proverb read, “If you trust the Vietnamese, you will lose your crops.” Souphanouvong and Souvanna Phouma trusted the Vietnamese. Those two Lao leaders disappeared from the scene in 1975.
