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Title: Press photo of a man wearing a sign branding him a traitor walks in Vientiane, Laos, 1975
Contributor: Hyleigh Pan
Date Created and/or Issued: 1975-12-19
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
Collection: Hyleigh Pan collection of digital photographs of Lao ephemera
Rights Information: Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Contact the University of California, Irvine Libraries, Special Collections and Archives for more information (spcoll@uci.edu).
Description: Scope/Content: Press photo from AP Wire of a Laotian man forced to walk in the capital city of Vientiane with a sign that proclaimed him as a traitor. A drummer accompanied him to draw attention, but it remains unclear if the individual was accused of serving foreign or domestic enemies of the new communist regime.
Type: image
Form/Genre: digital photographs
Identifier: Laotian_diaspora08.jpg
Subject: Laotian Americans
Laotian Americans--History--Periodicals.
Laotian Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
Laotians--United States--Fiction.
Human rights--Laos.
Lao literature.

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