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  • Comment: I recommend making your draft about either the mountain (Phou pheung noi) or village (Ban phou pheung noi) but not both. As it is currently framed, it is confusing. Calliopejen1 (talk) 05:01, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
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Ban Phou Pheung Noi [1] was a Laotian village located on the mountain peak, Phou pheung, in the Xieng Khouang province, Laos. The altitude of this mountain is approximately 916 m (3,005 ft) high. During the Vietnam War, this mountain was a place of combat between the allies of the Americans who were the Hmong and the enemies who were the Pathet Lao, Marxist government in Laos, and the communist North Vietnamese, the Vietnamese People's Army. The area was mainly mountainous with tropical forests in the late 1960'. This mountain, Phou pheung, is elongated like the back of a donkey coming from the East to West. It is south of Muang Soui - Nongtang-Nato, and west of Phou Douk, Muang Phuan, Phonsavan and Plain of Jars. On the east side about 10 miles from Ban Phou pheung noi is the Num Ngum 4 hydroelectric dam.[2][3]

Down the village of Ban Phou pheung noi, there were its rocky mountains and the Nam Ngum River. This long river went through the bottom of the mountain of Phou Pheung before continuing west until Mekong River in the Vientiane province. During the rainy season, navigation between Ban Phou pheung noi's village to its neighbors located on the other side of the Nam Ngum River was impossible. This was problems of the rocky mountains and the cliffs. In both sides of the river, there were rocky mountains leaning like a wall that nobody could climb them up and down. To reach the other side of the river, it took miles of detours on foot. This can be done only in dry season at that time.

Etymology

Phou means mount, pheung is peak, and then noi means small. Ban meaning village and noi are Lao vocabulary words. Nyav-noj-neeg means monster.

History

Ban Phou Pheung Noi's village is started to be known to people starting in 1950. It is located on the top of the mountain Phou pheung. In between 1940 to 1970, there were two hill tribes settled on the top of this mountain. The first group of inhabitants was the Khmu people Lao Theung, a primitive group of aborigine in Laos. And the other one was the Hmong people called before (Miao people). These ones were immigrating from South China and North Vietnam in 18th century.[4] This group of people is known under the name “Yang”. They were the descendants of ChongBlia Yang.

Between 1952 - 1965, the Hmong hill tribes mainly lived to hunting, fishing, and burning rainforests for land. It was to plant corn, rice, and opium poppies. The location, where Ban Phou pheung noi is located, used to be covered by dense forests for centuries. Before 1960, the inhabitants of this village were almost all illiterate. Few people could read and write the Lao alphabet and also count from 1 to 100. The first school was founded in 1960. When Captain Kong Le overthrew the Royal Lao Government in a coup d'etat, 1960 Laotian coups, in August 10, 1960, out of fear of being killed by Kong Le military troops that were moving to east through Muang Soui to settle at Phonsavan and Plain of Jars, villagers who were living in Ban Phou pheung noi took refuge in a cave on a cliff of the Phou pheung mountain which was on the edge of Nam Ngum River. This was how the war has began in Laos.[5]

The first American helicopter of the Vietnam War that was landing in Ban Phou pheung noi was in 1961. When hill tribes of the village saw the pilots and the co-pilot sitting with dark glasses in helicopter, they were believing that the pilots were Martians (Nyav-noj-neeg is Hmong vocabulary word) who came from another planet. The folks were saying that the flying machine was a metal dragon fly. And then, after a few months later, the Vietnam War has started. Then it has poisoned the north of Xieng Khouang province, Laos.[6]

During the Vietnam War, and the Laotian civil war also the US Operation Off Balance under General Vang Pao[7], T-28s and US Air Force fighters dropped thousands of bombs on this village.[8], then people of this village disappeared and then scattered around the world afterwards. It was in the beginning of July 1969, when this village was destroyed by American bombs, see Bomb Harvest. It was about 3 miles from there, where Lee Lue, a T-28s pilot employed by general Vang Pao and the US CIA, was killed [9] His T-28 aircraft was hit by a surface-to-air missile while conducting combat raids in Muang Soui[10] . It was July 12, 1969 when Lee Lue has been killed in his T-28 plane at Ban Phou Pheung noi.[11] He was born a few miles from where he was killed.

In fact, due to the Vietnam War which poisoned the entire north of Laos which is the Xieng Khouang province, where is located Ban Phou pheung noi, the Hmong people tribes then abandoned this place in 1969 [12] to escape death and then hide across the country before some of the Yang ChongBlia families fled to Thailand, and then immigrated to Western countries like Australia, Canada, France and the United States for the most part after 1975.[13][14][15][16][17][18]. The most of these refugees people are settled in Minnesota, California, and also North Carolina. For all other states, there are few.

Location

The village of Ban Phou pheung Noi is located between Long Tieng "Looj Ceeb" (which is to the Southeast) and Muang Soui (North), Plain of Jars Phonsavan to the East, and the royal capital Luang Prabang in the West/north. In fact, it is located in the middle of Xieng Khouang province. The temperature was often high between 20 and 32 Celsius degrees through the year except during the dry season from November to February. Geography of Laos: this country is located on equator line, then the climate is tropical and is often very hot and humid. From the area where Ban Phou pheung noi is located in Laos, there are two seasons. One is the rainy season and the other is the dry season. The nearest neighboring villages of Ban Phou Pheung noi were about 3 and 5 miles away. Some were cited in the book of Air America in Laos III - humanitarian work by Dr. Joe F. Leeker, Part II, on page 3, section of "The drop schedule for May 1969...". The 3 villages were called San Luang (LS-41), Houei Ki Nin (LS-38), and Ban Pak Ha (LS-40). Ban Phou pheung noi was east of San Luang, then west of Houei Ki Nin. Regarding administrative affairs, Ban Phou pheung noi village depended on San Luang district. That was why the people of Ban Phou Pheung noi village received USAID foods in 1969 through the county of San Luang. [19]

References

  1. ^ "Phou Pheung, Laos-Google Maps". Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  2. ^ "Laos Hydropower Projects".
  3. ^ "nam ngum dam 4 hydropower-Google Search". Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  4. ^ "Hmong | people/contributor=by Nicolas Tapp". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  5. ^ News, A. B. C. "America's Secret War in Laos Uncovered". ABC News/authors=by Bob Woodruff and Karson Yiu. Retrieved 2016-09-09. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  6. ^ "America's Shadow War in Laos Revisited/author=by COLIN THOMPSON". Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  7. ^ "Laos: America's lesser known human and political disaster in Southeast Asia/Publisher=Whashingtonpost.com". Retrieved 2017-02-02.
  8. ^ "Forty years on, Laos reaps bitter harvest of the secret war/author=Ian MacKinnon". 2 December 2008.
  9. ^ "T-28 In Colorado – Lao-Hmong Memorial".
  10. ^ "library of congress/alleged death of two U.S Aircrewman at Muang Soui, Laos; evolution". Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  11. ^ "Fly Until You die". 14 May 2019.
  12. ^ "Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life Under an Air War". Zinn Education Project. Retrieved 2010-11-08.
  13. ^ "How the U.S. War in Laos Was Key to the 'Birth of a Military CIA'/contributor=NISHANT DAHIYA". Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  14. ^ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "The State of The World's Refugees 2000: Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action - Chapter 4: Flight from Indochina". UNHCR.
  15. ^ "Hmong Timeline/Minnesota Historical Society/".
  16. ^ "Hmong in Minnesota/Minnesota Historical Society/".
  17. ^ "Refugee workers in the Indochina exodus, 1975-1982 / Larry Clinton Thompson".
  18. ^ "A Hmong-Lao veterans day called to recognize efforts in 'Secret War'/Minnesota House of Representative/Published-date=March-10-2017".
  19. ^ "Air America in Laos III - humanitarian work" (PDF).
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