LAOS - MARCH 01: Exclusive - Hmong People, The History Forgotten Warriors In Laos In March, 2008 - Jean Sassi' personal archives : In Laos in 1953, Hmong fighters who were financed by France to fight Vietnameses., Colonel Jean Sassi was Captain of the GCMA, and one of the chiefs of the Indochina action service, president of the 11th Choc commando - He used to be the commander of the D operation (Desperado) in April 1954 to save the French Dien Bien Phu soldiers with the 2000 Hmongs of the 'Malo-servan-sangsue' maquis - Colonel Jean Sassi has been leading the Hmong soldiers until March 1955. (Photo by Patrick AVENTURIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
