Thao Ty
Thao Ty | |
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| Died | May 1975 |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of Laos |
| Branch | Royal Lao Police Directorate of National Coordination Royal Lao Army |
| Rank | Brigadier general |
| Commands | 1st Special Mobile Group Special Guerrilla Units 2nd Strike Division SPECOM |
| Battles / wars | Laotian Civil War |
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Brigadier general Thao Ty Lithilusa (? – May 1975), best known as Thao Ty (not to be confused with Hmong Colonel Thao Pao Ly, Chief-of-Staff of Military Region 3), was a Laotian Paratrooper officer and commander of the Airborne Forces and the Special Forces of the Royal Lao Army (French: Armée Royale du Laos – ARL), the land component of the Royal Lao Armed Forces (French: Forces Armées du Royaume – FAR), the official military of the Kingdom of Laos during the 1960s and 1970s.