Together with four neutralists and four members of an opposition party, four members of this organization made up the Provisional Government of National Union.
During a diplomatic mission, J. Graham Parsons pressed for the breaking of diplomatic ties with this organization, which held British diplomat Mervyn Brown captive for a month in 1962. Together with four neutralists and four members of an opposition party, four members of this organization made up the Provisional Government of National Union. In its early days this organization, whose political wing was known as the Hak Xat, held itself in opposition to phu nyai, or "big man," politics. The book Man in the Region of Death was an account of this organization's prison camps by former RLG official Thongthip Rathanavilai, though unlike the Khmer Rouge this organization never established massive death camps. During its heyday, this organization was headed by Kaysone Phomvihan and Prince Souphanuvong, and in 1975 it succeeded in overthrowing the US-backed government based in Vientiane. For 10 points, identify this Communist organization which in 1975 became the governing party of Laos.
During a diplomatic mission, J. Graham Parsons pressed for the breaking of diplomatic ties with this organization, which held British diplomat Mervyn Brown captive for a month in 1962.
Pathet Lao [or Lao Nation]