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Forces Armées Neutralistes
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Neutralist Armed Forces.
The Neutralist Armed Forces (French: Forces Armées Neutralistes; FAN) were a Laotian paramilitary rebel group and independent political movement active in the Laotian Civil War. It was founded in August 1960 in the wake of the August 1960 coup, led by mutinous Laotian National Army officers of the 2nd Parachute Battalion, that overthrew the military government of Phoumi Nosavan.