Boun Oum (also Prince Boun Oum or Prince Boun Oum Nachampassack) (December 12 , 1912 - March 17, 1980) was the son of King Ratsadanay, and was the hereditary prince of Champassack (replaced the "king" system). December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Ratsadanay was the last king of Champassack. ... Categories: Stub | Provinces of Laos ...
He was born in Don Talad.
A political conservative sympathetic to French control of Laos, he commanded a force of 15,000 that fought Japanese occupiers and the Lao Issara in the south of Laos. Titular leader of the royalist faction, he served as prime minister of the Kingdom of Laos in 1948 - 1949 and again in 1960 - 1961. The Lao Peoples Democratic Republic is a landlocked country in southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (commonly known in the west as Burma) and the Peoples Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
BounOum (also Prince BounOum or Prince BounOum Nachampassack) son of King Ratsadanay, was the heir to the defunct throne of Champassack.
A political conservative sympathetic to French control of Laos, he commanded a force of 15,000 that fought Japanese occupiers and the Lao Issara[?] in the south of Laos.
He retired from politics to pursue business interests from his base in Pakxe and Champassack but continued to be a major power broker until his exile in 1975, the year the communists came to power.
"With an unmarried mother as queen," Prince BounOum na Champasak, the last of the kingdom's royal line, once said.
BounOum, who died in French exile in 1980, may have griped about his family's downfall (though he was not a direct descendent of Nang Pao), but it did not stop him from using his remaining royal privileges to loot the nearby Wat Phu.
The magnificent Angkorian temple complex was recently made a UNESCO heritage site and is considered one of the finest Angkor-inspired edifices outside of Cambodia.
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