I am not sure how much you guy know about Yang Dao. To me I know Yang Dao’s family since 1961 in Pha-Khao but never heard about Yang Dao but Yang Cha (Tsab) until I attended a Catholic school in Vientiane called “ Ecole Esperance” in 1965 when his wife Mo Ly came to ask Frs. Betraits and Charrier possibly for their helps to send her to Yang Cha in France. When Yang Cha came back to Laos in 1972 I then heard people called him Yang Dao instead of Yang Cha (Tsab). Might be after he got his PHD he didn’t want to loose his identity so he wanted be called Yang Dao rather than Yand Cha that made a lot of Hmong disliked him because “ Dao “ is a Vietnamese name. Not only Hmong but Low-Land-Lao as well were very nervous when he was called “Dao” because no one knew exactly if he was a Hmong or Vietnamese. So I will let you judge him by yourself why he didn’t carry Hmong name.

I, too, respected Yang Dao very much and very proud of him when he just returned from France in 1972 because I believed he could do a number of things for the Hmong. But for those years in office I couldn’t name anything that he had done for the Hmong because he couldn’t even help himself yet at the time. He still relied a lot of helps or advices from the elder Hmong leaders such as Touby Ly Foung, or Touyer Ly Foung, and/or General Vang Pao. To me, without any recommendation from these 3 elders guys I was sure he would never have a chance sitting in those 2 positions.

Later, Yang Dao disappointed the Hmong a lot while he was a member a newly reform National Assembly representing the Rightist Lao Political Party that was part of the Lao new coalition government in 1973. Everything he voted in the new legislatures/laws favored not the Hmong, not the Rightist Lao Political Party but the Pathet Lao or Lao Communist Political Party that included the termination of the Hmong in Long Cheng. And Yang Dao’s last trip to Long Cheng on May 12 and 13, as I recall, was to spy on Hmong’ s troops defensive position there for the Pathet Lao but not saved the Hmong as he stated. Then he fled to Thailand a few days later so “ How could he said he was helping the Hmong during that very critical time in Long Cheng while he was in Namphong with us there. So whoever above said above that “ Yang Dao was helping out the Hmong people over the years and his diplomatic, non-violance methods” then that person knew nothing about Yang Dao. You better think twice before you believe Yang Dao. This is the truce about Yang Dao,o.k.