LAOTIAN'S POLITICAL PROBLEMS
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Some reminders of history. Laotian, or "Thai Lao", is a branch of the Thai race who, in the third century, left the mountains of Yunnan to spread over the peninsula Indochinese Three main tracks were used as axes for the invasion: the Menam, the Mekong, the Black River. The Thai Lao Mekong and down, settling in the valleys in the mountains drove the indigenous Indonesians, to whom they gave the name of Kha. They formed small principalities self prefectures and broken, through the valleys of the tributaries of the Mekong....
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