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