Ong Kommandam

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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, Jacque 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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Gunn, Geoffrey (1990). Rebellion in Laos: peasant and politics in a colonial backwater. Boulder: Westview Press.
Moppert, François (1981). Le révolte des Bolovens (1901-1936). In Histoire de l’Asie du Sud-est: Révoltes, Réformes, Révolutions, Pierre Brocheux (ed.), 47-62. Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille.