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	Vang Pao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General Vang Pao was an American-allied Hmong military leader in the Second Indochina War.
		Pao was commander of the Secret Army, a highly-effective, American-trained and supported fighting force made up mostly of Hmong tribesmen.
		Pao is considered by most Hmong to be the preeminent leader of the Hmong people in the United States and a hero of American-allied forced in the Second Indochina War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vang_Pao (298 words)

	Killer Plays Race Card (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Meier also said that Vang fired over 20 rounds at the hunters from his semiautomatic, and that two victims were knocked from their all-terrain vehicles as they approached the scene, while others were "chased down" and shot in the back.
		Vang had been arrested once before, on Christmas Eve 2001 in Minneapolis, after brandishing a gun and telling his "wife" he was going to kill her, said Ron Reier, a spokesman for the Minneapolis Police Department.
		Cha Vang is the son of Hmong leader General Vang Pao (pictured), a well-known opium trafficker and former commander of the CIA's secret army in Laos from 1960 to 1975.
	www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=4242 (717 words)

	Printer version: Vang: A conflicting portrait
		Vang, 36, is jailed and charged with killing six hunters and injuring two others after a confrontation in the woods that turned violent Nov. 21.
		Vang is praised as a caring brother and grandson, yet California records suggest he had defaulted on child support for three of the 10 children he has by four women.
		Her Vang said Chai was never happier than when he was at his place near Mora, where he'd often invite his relatives to enjoy the peace and calm.
	www.uni-bonn.de /~upp203/htm/transvoc0405/vang_conflicting_portrait.htm (2194 words)

	Blood on the Frost: Never Forget the Hmong Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Vang, a bigamist with a legal wife and a so-called "cultural wife," is a part-time truck driver and the father of six children.
		Vang had been arrested once before, on Christmas Eve 2001 in Minneapolis, after brandishing a gun and telling one of his wives he was going to kill her, said Ron Reier, a spokesman for the Minneapolis Police Department.
		Chai Vang is reportedly the son of Hmong leader General Vang Pao, a well-known opium trafficker and former commander of the CIA's secret army in Laos from 1960 to 1975.
	www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=4326 (2864 words)

	Hmong Studies Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Vang Pao may have rejoiced at America's decision to shift support from the regular RLA to his own army, but for ordinary Hmong on the sidelines it was a dubious honor.
		Vang Pao used his new authority to create an independent political administration for Xieng Khouang{50} that would eventually include several hundred nai bans, seventy tassengs, dozens of nai kongs, and five chao muongs, plus hundreds of minor bureaucrats serving as staff for tassengs, nai kongs, and chao muongs.
		Vang Pao took his next wife from Sam Neua to form better relations with the Striped Hmong,{71} and his seventh from Tase, a Moua enclave that had previously shunned his leadership.
	members.aol.com /hmongstudies/HSJv3_Quincy.html (16846 words)

	Heroism of the Hmong - November 26, 2004 - The New York Sun
		I remember thinking, when Vang Pao entered the room, that I had rarely met an individual with as remarkable a sense of military dignity and command, though he was not a large man and was wearing a civilian business suit.
		Vang Pao took his seat with the editors around a coffee table, and he talked quietly of the struggle of his people for their own cause - and America's - against the communists.
		Vang told police that when a group of hunters came upon him and surrounded him, he had walked away, then looked back to find one of the hunters pointing a rifle at him.
	www.nysun.com /article/5399 (927 words)

	Wisconsin shooting spree: the plot thickens : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		VANG PAO was a cia mafioso and a stone cold killer.
		Cha Vang is a son of Gen. Vang Pao, probably the best-known Hmong in the United States.
		Vang's statement, said he was convinced that the whole story behind the shootings had not been told.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1706633&comments=yes (1957 words)

	LVA LOGBOOK
		But Vang Pao and other vocal, US-based Lao activists frequently warn the 250,000 Laotians who live in America that Vientiane must be overthrown, to stop their alleged slaughter of innocent Lao people.
		Vang Pao is said to lead a Lao United Independent Front, and a Lao United Independent Army, comprised of thousands of anti-communist Lao dissidents.
		Vang Pao's US-based colleague Vang Pobzeb, of the United Lao Movement for Democracy, claims "massacres" and "ethnic cleansing" of Hmong and other anti-communists in Laos is continuing, totaling more than 300,000 killed in the past 25 years.
	www.laoveterans.com /custom3.html (1796 words)

	Grandparent Voices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mor Vang came to the United States from her native Laos with her husband Pao Doua in 1983.
		Pao Doua Vang served as a soldier allied with the United States in Laos during the Vietnam War from 1960 - 1975.
		Pao was shot in the head by Communist soldiers and lost most of his hearing due to this injury.
	www.firminc.org /grandprt.html (1202 words)

	Secret War, Secret Strategy in Laos
		Vang Pao saw battle for the first time in 1945 at the age of thirteen, while working as an interpreter for French commandos who had parachuted onto the Plain of Jars to organize anti-Japanese resistance.
		Vang Pao was one of the few commanders who did not panic at the Kong Le and Pathet Lao coordinated offensive.
		Vang Pao was appointed commander of Military Region II and established his headquarters at Padoung.
	www.drugtext.org /library/books/McCoy/book/54.htm (6403 words)

	Display news
		The Vang Pao Foundation promised at its inception to operate for the benefit of the Hmong resettling in the United States.
		The Vang Pao Foundation was formed in 2000 with the mission of preserving Hmong identity and culture, promoting understanding between the Hmong and other cultures, promoting education and developing the next generation of Hmong leaders.
		Vang Pao is as corrupt as Saddam Hussein and as...
	www.hmongtoday.com /displaynews.asp?ID=1872 (1952 words)

	062601 California: Memos put twist on missing Fresnan case (Fresno Bee)
		Houa Ly's daughter further advised lawmakers that Vang and her father apparently were kidnapped by Lao officials, either while in Thailand or after being lured across a river into Laos.
		Vang's mother, one memo further suggests, "may be" the daughter of Vang Pao's former chief of staff.
		The intelligence memo further noted that Vang Pao's group "is known in resistance circles as being well funded, and for achieving success in establishing relationships, probably through monetary inducements, with three Lao army battalions." The House of Representatives essentially endorsed a different version of the story.
	www.hmongnet.org /news/news_95.html (905 words)

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		Vang Pao stated, "As a leader who fought for the cause of freedom and believed in the free world, it is clear the problems these people face.
		Vang Pao asked the leaders of Laos to consider that neither side won the Vietnam War.
		Vang Pao stated it was uncovered that the communist government imprisoned, tortured, and killed all of those people.
	www.factfinding.org /Past_News_Releases/page25.html (506 words)

	Laos' forgotten "killing fields" (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Vang Pao was supplied and financed by the CIA.
		Vang Pao fled the country with his family and as many of his soldiers as could be transported.
		On May 16, 1997, General Vang Pao and some 3,000 veterans of his Armee Clandestine stood at Arlington National Cemetery for the dedication of a monument — a small stone bearing a copper plaque, commemorating the “secret war” in Laos and those who died in the Laos theater of the Vietnam War.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=4109 (436 words)

	Vang Pao Foundation Agrees To Close In Court Settlement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the agreement, Cha Vang and Lia Vang, the foundation’s only officers, admitted to violating Minnesota laws governing charities by not having a valid board of directors; not keeping adequate records and books; not filing with the Attorney General’s office as a charity; and not having a valid address for the foundation’s headquarters.
		Cha Vang, who was the only signatory on the foundation’s bank accounts could not account for the more than $500,000 in donations the foundation collected since its founding in 2000, but the preliminary investigation by the Attorney General’s office showed that he spent large amounts of foundation money on travel, hotel bills, and jewelry.
		Neither Lia Vang nor Cha Vang, who once was a close aide to then Saint Paul Mayor Norm Coleman, have commented publicly on any of their legal troubles, and they have declined to talk to the media about the settlement.
	www.hmongtimes.com /main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=190&ArticleID=259&TM=53043.21 (537 words)

	AsianWeek.com
		Pao, 74, who now lives in California, declared that he was open to normalized trade with Laos if human rights were improved and other conditions were met.
		Pao's speech was seen as a significant shift in his outlook.
		Vang said "they" are probably communist agents working for Laos who are resentful of Pao's anti-communism and his continuing influence over Hmong Americans.
	news.asianweek.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=c6c5fac96e22462ec6ed06e81969c05c (760 words)

	Laos the Communists Seize Power
		Realizing that the Hmong were being abandoned and the penalty they faced if left to the mercy of the Pathet Lao, Vang Pao requested evacuation for his soldiers and their families to safe haven in Thailand.
		Facing an ultimatum, Vang Pao and twelve Hmong leaders signed a treaty on May 10 reminding the United States of the pledges made to them and agreeing to leave Laos and never return.
		Vang Pao himself left on May 14, eluding the T-28s at Vientiane.
	www.country-studies.com /laos/the-communists-seize-power.html (604 words)

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		Vang Pao was born in the village of Ha Ta Xieng in Xieng Khouang Province and attended elementary school in Nong Het.
		By the age of 13 he was already serving as Touby Lyfoung's emissary to the Japanese during their occupation of Southeast Asia.
		After the fall of Dienbienphu in 1954, the responsibility for protecting isolated Hmong and other Lao villages fell on Vang Pao and the so-called Meo Maquis.
	people.csp.edu /hillmer/GenVangPao.htm (253 words)

	WSJ News
		Pao, revered by many as a latter-day George Washington, spoke forcefully as he recounted for more than 500 Madison listeners the struggles his soldiers endured while fighting on behalf of U.S. troops in the Vietnam War.
		Pao helped lead the Hmong resettlement effort and remains popular among his compatriots despite allegations in a 1972 book by UW-Madison history professor Alfred McCoy that the CIA supported Pao's role in a heroin-trafficking operation in partial payment for supplying troops who fought the North Vietnamese in Laos.
		Pao is "the best leader ever in Hmong history," Pobzeb said, calling the charges "nonsense." Pobzeb said he personally was in a position to know because he worked for the CIA under the direction of an American leader and Pao from 1971 to 1975.
	www.madison.com /wisconsinstatejournal/local/38305.php (810 words)

	wcco.com - Hmong Foundation To Close After It Violated Laws
		Cha Vang, who worked as an aide to U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman when Coleman was mayor of St. Paul, and Lia Vang, the foundation's executive director, also agreed to an injunction prohibiting either of them from forming, volunteering or working for any nonprofit or charitable organization in Minnesota.
		In signing the agreement, Lia Vang and Cha Vang, the son of Vang Pao, admitted that their St. Paul-based foundation solicited charitable contributions without registering as a charitable organization with the attorney general's office.
		Cha Vang was also the subject of a 2004 FBI investigation for allegedly touting his influence at City Hall over a liquor license for a club once owned in part by a former St. Paul police officer, Tou Mou Cha.
	wcco.com /topstories/local_story_280072753.html (592 words)

	wcco.com - Chai Vang's Relatives Remember Him As Role Model (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Chai Soua Vang, 36, is jailed and charged with killing six hunters and wounding two others after a confrontation over hunting on private land two weeks ago.
		Speaking at his unit at a shabby apartment building near downtown Stockton, Nou Cher Vang remembered cleaning Chai Vang with warm water the day he was born in 1968 in a mountainous part of Laos.
		Chai Vang returned to St. Paul in 1999 after serving in the California National Guard, working as a teacher's aide and as a long-haul truck driver.
	wcco.com /topstories/local_story_339184320.html (997 words)

	LVA GENERAL VANG PAO
		During the rainy season of 1969, Vang Pao abandoned the use of guerrilla tactics and launched a major offensive against the NVA/Pathet Lao forces, using the increased airpower to support a drive against enemy positions on the PDJ.
		Vang Pao again captured the PDJ in July and established a network of artillery strongpoints, manned by Thai gunners.
		Vang Pao's hope of retaining the PDJ during the dry season went unfulfilled.
	www.laoveterans.com /custom2.html (7749 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam
		Szendrey said he went with Vang Pao to the State Department to explain the Hmong's plight and to ask for help in getting their story to the United Nations.
		Much of Vang Pao's heroin was probably "for [American] GI addicts in Vietnam," McCoy wrote.
		He also boosts that Vang Pao, who is based in California, is the Hmong's best leader.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/GF14Ae02.html (1060 words)

	Deer hunter says he was shot at first / Hmong American charged with killing 6 in Wisconsin rampage
		According to the statement, Vang said several of the hunters had surrounded him, swore at him and threatened him after he climbed down from the platform.
		The police statement said that as Vang looked down the trail and saw that one of the hunters was still standing, he yelled, "You're not dead yet?" and shot again.
		Vang Pao commanded the Hmong "secret army" that the CIA assembled to fight communism in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and '70s.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/24/MNG0PA0M121.DTL (701 words)

	Scoop: 4500 CIA Hmong Looking For A Ticket To The States
		Vang Pao lives in the United States, where he is a controversial figure.
		Vang Pao was named as "a despotic warlord" in Alfred McCoy's respected book, "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia," for smuggling opium on the CIA's Air America flights, and operating a heroin factory in Long Tieng, Laos, in the 1960s and 1970s -- while commanding the CIA's Hmong during a widened US-Vietnam war.
		Vang Pao, a gung-ho military collaborator for French colonialists, was selected by the CIA in 1961 to lead thousands of Hmong mercenaries to their deaths, fighting Vietnamese and Lao communists.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0607/S00316.htm (1584 words)

	Sen. George Asks UW For Probe On Vang Pao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The examination of Vang Pao's history was prompted by a proposal by Madison Park Board member Locha Thao that a new park on the far east side be named in honor of Vang Pao.
		Vang Pao, through a statement read Friday by his representative, Xang Vang, vigorously denied the allegations.
		Vang Pao referred to an article in the Daily Cardinal newspaper in which McCoy said Vang Pao tried to silence him while he was in Laos in 1971, sending an armed ambush against McCoy and his contacts there.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v02/n809/a09.html (436 words)

	AIR AMERICA
		Major General Vang Pao, former Commander of the US Secret Army in Laos during the Vietnam War and former Commander of the 2nd Military Region of the Royal Lao Army arrived.
		Toua Vang, Lue Lee's comrade, was missing in the raining season during their mission to support the ground troops in Mouang Gnam, Xiengkhouang province.
		Wangyee Vang, former Chief Personnel of the 1st Strike Division Infantry which was commanded by Major General Vang Pao during that critical times.
	asiantigers.8k.com /photo.html (6963 words)

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		One of Vang Pao's sons, Cha Vang, is under FBI investigation as part of a federal probe into possible influence peddling at St. Paul City Hall.
		Cha Vang, who is listed in some records as a project manager at the foundation, had sole control over one of the accounts from April 2001 through January 2003, according to bank records examined by the state.
		Cha Vang told the attorney general's office that he had few documents because records sought by investigators were burned in an arson fire that destroyed his Maplewood home in 2004.
	www.kare11.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=90546 (526 words)

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