西萨旺·冯
Meanwhile, confronted in early May 1945 with the Allied Powers' victory over Nazi Germany and sensing their own imminent defeat, the Japanese military authorities in Laos began stirring up local anti-French nationalistic sentiments. In October of that year, a group of supporters of Laotian independence led by Prince Phetsarath Ratanavongsa deposed King Sisavang Vong and announced the formation of a new government body, the Committee for Independent Laos (Lao language: ຄະນະ ກຳ ມາທິການເພື່ອປະເທດລາວອິດສະຫຼະ | "Khana kam mathikan pheu pathedlav idsara") or Khana Lao Issara and Lao Issara for short.