Major general Oudone Sananikone (Ûdon Xananikôn), was a Laotian senior officer 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 from 1950 to 1975.
A member of the aristocratic Sananikone family, he was born in 1919 in Vientiane.
Returning to Vientane in 1950, he joined the Lao National Army.
He fled Laos in May 1975, shortly before the communist takeover.
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