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HISTORY. In 1893 Laos became a French protectorate and in 1907 acquired its present frontiers. On 9 March 1945 Vichy French authority was suppressed by the Japanese. When the Japanese withdrew later in 1945 an independence movement known as Lao Issara (Free Laos) established a government under Prince Phetsarath, the Viceroy of Luang Prabang. This government collapsed with the return of the French in 1946 and the leaders of the movement fled to Thailand.
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Cordeil, H., Laos. [Bibliography] Oxford and Santa Barbara, 1990
Stuart-Fox, M., Laos: Politics, Economics and Society. London, 1986
Zasloff, J. J., andUnger, L. (eds.) Laos: Beyond the Revolution. London, 1991
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Hunter, B. (1995). Laos. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271241_100
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