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  Thao Ma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The BC-47 did not put B/G Thao Ma in conflict with Generals Kouprasith Abhay and Ouane Rattikone of the high command, who pressured him to provide transport for their drug trade.
In the early morning of October 22, 1966, he launched a "revenge" aerial attack on General Kouprasith (also known as Fat K) when six of his T-28 fighters took off from his Savannakhet base to bomb General Kouprasith Abhay's office at general staff headquarters in Vientiane.
He failed, and he and sixty of his cohorts were executed by Kouprasith's forces.
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 thao ma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Aware that the Communists often attacked at night when his T-28 fighters were grounded, Thao Ma sought a way to provide night-time air support for government forces and decided to arm his C-47 transports with side-firing.50 caliber machine guns.
As he converted these transport planes into primitive gunships, he reduced the air force's logistic capacity, which put him into conflict with Generals Kouprasith Abhay and Ouane Rattikone of the high command, who pressured him to provide transport for their drug trade.
In the early morning of October 22, 1966, he launched a coup d'etat when six of his T-28 fighters took off from his Savannakhet base to bomb General Kouprasith Abhay's office at general staff headquarters in Vientiane.
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 Hmong Studies Journal
His co-conspirator was General Siho Lamphouthacoul, a man from Abhay's hometown and head of the national police, reorganized in 1961 as a praetorian guard to protect Phoumi from his political enemies.
Kouprasith Abhay mobilized his forces and nipped it in the bud.
Abhay's reward had been a promotion to general and command of the fifth military region, making him a major player not only in the military but in capital politics.
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 Phoumi Nosavan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
All of this led to jealousy and rage among his right-wing competitors.
On April 19, 1964, a coup led by Generals Kouprasith Abhay, Ouane Rattikone and Siho Lamphouthakoun toppled him from power.
With the help of Col. Bounleut Saycocie, at the beginning of February 1965 he attempted a coup to regain power.
www.asia-handicrafts.com /about-laos/phoumi-nosavan.htm   (567 words)

  
 Kong Le -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The Pathet Lao and neutralist-leftists attacked the (additional info and facts about Plain of Jars) Plain of Jars but Kong Le now allied with Phoumi, repulsed the attack.
The neutralist government was deposed by the right-wing generals (additional info and facts about Kouprasith Abhay) Kouprasith Abhay and Siho Lamphouthakoun April 19, 1964, but following international pressure, Souvanna Phouma was reinstalled as premiere.
On January 31, 1965 Phoumi and Siho led a coup d'etat, but Kong Le troops defeated them by February 4.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/K/Ko/Kong_Le.htm   (630 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Just a Little Rebellion -- Oct. 28, 1966   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Last week came bombs.It was 8:30 in the morning, and the streets were crowded, when a dozen an cient T-28s rattled over the city from the south.
Working with remarkable precision, they avoided civilian targets, unloaded on army headquarters, the airport, and the command post of Royalist Army Strongman General Kouprasith Abhay.
At the same time, a military radio station began broadcasting a declaration from coup-happy...
www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,899352,00.html   (150 words)

  
 Dan's Papers - Read Dan's Papers
The victory was jubilantly received at government headquarters in Saigon, because it marked the first major victory the army had managed since the war began.
A news conference was held in Saigon by General Kouprasith Abhay, who announced that some Red Chinese supplies had been captured when Red positions were overrun.
He gleefully opened a box and handed out samples of these supplies, all tubes of toothpaste.
www.danspapers.com /paper/an_8.html   (1026 words)

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