Pathet Lao

[ pah-tet ]

noun

1. the Communist nationalist group that took over the government of Laos in 1975 after two decades of civil war.

Example Sentences

In March 1970, as a 25-year-old freelance journalist, Mr. Allman, accompanied by two other reporters, walked 15 miles over the mountains in Laos to report for The New York Times about Long Cheng, a secret C.I.A. base that was being used to fight the communist Pathet Lao revolutionaries and their allies, the North Vietnamese.

From New York Times

After the Pathet Lao Communist Party takeover of Laos in 1975, Voraphaychith’s father was taken to a re-education camp.

From Seattle Times

They are ostensibly on the side of the royal government as the insurgent communists, Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese, move stealthily through rural backwaters.

From Washington Times

Communist revolutionaries known at the Pathet Lao took power in 1975, vowing to expunge foreign influences and reassert Lao identity, right down to its national language.

From Washington Post

As deputy chief of mission in Laos, he forged a compromise agreement with the communist-led group Pathet Lao to avoid bloodshed and stifled an attempted coup in 1973, when a dissident Air Force general, Thao Ma, sought to overthrow the U.S.-backed government of Prince Souvanna Phouma.

From Washington Post