biography
| name: |
Phomvihane, Kaysone
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1920–92)
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| biography:
| Laotian prime minister (1975–91), born in Savannakhet province, SW Laos. He studied at Hanoi University, fought with the anti-French forces in Vietnam after World War 2, and joined the exiled Free Lao Front (Neo Lao Issara) nationalist movement in Bangkok in 1945. He later joined the Communist Pathet Lao, becoming its leader in 1955. He became prime minister of the newly formed People's Democratic Republic of Laos and general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. Initially he attempted to follow a radical Socialist programme, but later began a policy of economic and political liberalization. |
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