Vietnam guerrilla leader dies in the US

A revered former general in the Royal Army of Laos who led thousands of Hmong guerrillas in a CIA-backed secret army during the Vietnam War has died.

After moving to the US once the communists seized power in Laos in 1975, Vang Pao was venerated as a leader by the Hmong refugee populations who resettled in California’s Central Valley, Minneapolis and cities throughout Wisconsin.