United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races

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The United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO; French: Front unifié de lutte des races opprimées, Vietnamese: Mặt trận Thống nhất Đấu tranh của các Sắc tộc bị Áp bức) was a separatist political and militant organization which conducted a decades-long insurgency in Mainland Southeast Asia during the Indochina wars with the aim of achieving autonomy for various indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in Southern Vietnam, including the Montagnards in the Central Highlands, the Chams in Central Vietnam, and the Khmer Krom in the south. It was opposed to all forms of Vietnamese rule. Preceded by a number of separatist groups, FULRO was founded in 1964. Initially a political movement, after 1969 it evolved into a fragmented guerrilla group that carried on simultaneous insurgencies against both the U.S.-aligned government of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu, and against the Soviet-aligned communist government of North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, in the context of...

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