Thongbanh Sengaphone | |
|---|---|
 Thongbanh attending the 9th Association of Southeast Asian Nations ministerial conference on Transnational Crime | |
| Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party | |
| In office 21 March 2006 –17 May 2014 | |
| Leader | Choummaly Sayasone |
| Minister of Public Security | |
| In office 27 March 2001 –17 May 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Asang Laoly |
| Succeeded by | To be determined |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 May 1953 Thouai Beang, Kingdom of Laos |
| Died | 17 May 2014 (aged 61) Baan Nadi, Lao People's Democratic Republic |
| Political party | Lao People's Revolutionary Party |
Thongbanh Sengaphone (2 May 1953–17 May 2014) was a Laotian politician and member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). He served as Minister of Public Security and concurrently held seats in the LPRP's Central Committee (appointed at the 7th Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party) and the Secretariat (appointed at the 8th Party Congress). [1]
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, commonly referred to by its colloquial name of Muang Lao, is a socialist state and the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. Located at the heart of the Indochinese peninsula, Laos is bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest.
The Lao People's Revolutionary Party, formerly the Lao People's Party, is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Laos and has emerged from the Communist Party of Vietnam founded by Hồ Chí Minh in 1930. It has governed in Laos since 1975. The policy-making organs are the Politburo, Secretariat and the Central Committee. A party congress, which elects members to the politburo and central committee, is held every five years. The congress used to also elect a secretariat, but this body was abolished in 1991. As of 2016, 128 of the 132 members of the National Assembly of Laos were from the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
The Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party was established in 1955, and is the highest authority within the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. It is periodically elected by the party's National Congress.
On 17 May 2014, Sengaphone died when the plane he was traveling on crashed in northern Laos. [2] [3] He was traveling to Xiangkhouang Province to attend a ceremony celebrating the 55th anniversary of the second division of the Lao People's Army. [4]
On 17 May 2014, an Antonov An-74 transport aircraft of the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force crashed while en route to Xiangkhouang Province, northern Laos, killing all but one of the 17 people on board. Among the victims were several Laotian politicians travelling to attend a ceremony celebrating the 55th anniversary of the second division of the Lao People's Army.
Xiangkhouang is a province of Laos, located in the Xiangkhouang Plateau, north-east of the country. Originally known as the Principality of Muang Phuan, the present capital of the province is Phonsavan. The population of the province as of the 2015 census is 244,684.
