Vang Pao, a revered former broad-spectrum in the Royal Army of Laos who led thousands of Hmong guerrillas in a CIA-backed secret army during the Vietnam War, has died. He was 81.
After immigrating to the United States once the communists apprehended power in Laos in 1975, Vang Pao was recognized as a leader and a father figure by the large Hmong refugee populations who resettled in California's Central Valley, Minneapolis and city throughout Wisconsin.Xang Vang, the general's chief translator who fought by his side, said Vang Pao died Thursday night subsequent a battle with pneumonia, which he caught while traveling in central California to preside over two Hmong New Year celebrations.
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