Lao people
The Lao (Lao: ລາວ, Isan: ลาว, IPA: láːw) are an ethnic subgroup of Tai/Dai in Southeast Asia. The vast majority of Lao people live in Laos and the Isan region of Thailand.
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Ong Kommandam
Ong Kommandam (also Ong Kommadam) was the right hand man of Ong Keo. He quickly picked up the struggle for independence with far greater success because he was able to unite the highland minorities of Southern Laos. In 1910, he was shot by French Résident Supérieur of Salavan, Jacques Dauplay, who had supposedly come to negotiate. Kommandam survived the attack, which added to his status. He claimed that they were the Khom who are indigenous to the area, and have lived in a glory age when the Khmer ruled them, and when they were a part of the Kingdom of Lan Xang. As part of his resistance activities, he invented a secret script to convey messages, Khom script. He continued the fight for independence from 1910 until 1936 when he was killed.
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Ong Keo led the Khom to fight the French and Lao from 1901 to 1937. He was an Alak, born in Ban Paktai.
His father was a village chief. Ong Keo moved rapidly up the leadership ladder because of his charisma and intelligence, and because he was fluent in Lao and Pali. He performed religious ceremonies on Mount Tayun, which was close to his home village. He advocated that the foreigners be thrown out. His followers grew quickly and soon they began calling him Phu Mi Boun ("The Holy Mam") and then Pha Ong Keo ("The Saint who possess the miraculous stone").
He launched his rebellion in Thateng (now Sekong Province) in response to the destruction of the temple of Ban Nong Mek. This rebellion lasted six years before a truce could made. Phu Mi Boun never truly surrendered, but he was forced to stop the uprising based on bad conditions of his troops. He encouraged disciples such as Ong Kommandam to carry on his struggle. The Commisionioner Saravance, Dauplay, angered at Phu Mi Boun's activities, summoned him to a meeter, and shot him with a gun.