Sisavang Vong
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.