This paper analyzes how the Pathet Lao (PL) created the “Liberated Area”. Earlier studies discussed how it had developed as the military, economic or cultural base during the Second Indochina War and how the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) had helped it. But it has not been clarified when the Liberated Area was established.
In 1950, the Lao Resistant Government was established and then it called its own state “Pathet Lao”. However PL didn’t have its own territory and was the government-in-exile protected by DRV. In 1954, two northeastern provinces of Laos, Samnua and Ponsaly, were provided as the assembly area to PL at the Geneva conference. However PL couldn’t sustain it and returned it to the Kingdom of Laos when the coalition government
In 1950, the Lao Resistant Government was established and then it called its own state “Pathet Lao”. However PL didn’t have its own territory and was the government-in-exile protected by DRV. In 1954, two northeastern provinces of Laos, Samnua and Ponsaly, were provided as the assembly area to PL at the Geneva conference. However PL couldn’t sustain it and returned it to the Kingdom of Laos when the coalition government