The Praab
Ho
(Haw) Monument in
Nong Kai, built to commemorate the defeat of the Ho, Chinese tribes
from southern
Yunnan
and Guangxi, who formed warrior
bandit groups, known as the Flag Gangs, that between 1865
and 1890 ravaged large areas of northern
Laos,
then a tributary state of
Siam (fig.).
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