Zong Zoua Her

{{short description|Hmong political leader (died 2000)}}

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| name = Zoov Zuag Hawj

| image = Zong Zoua Her.jpg

| native_name = {{script|Hmng|𖬍𖬥𖬰 𖬑𖬶𖬥𖬰 𖬎𖬲𖬟}}

| native_name_lang = Hmong

| pronunciation = {{IPA|Hmn|ʐɔ̃̌ ʐṳə hâɨ|}}

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| birth_place = Laos

| death_date = {{death-date|2000}}

| death_place = in his base area on Phou Bia Mountain

| known_for = An earlier leader of the anti-Lao government

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Zong Zoua Her (alternate spelling Tsong Zua Heu; RPA: Zoov Zuag Hawj {{IPA|Hmn|ʐɔ̃̌ ʐṳə hâɨ|}}, Pahawh: {{script|Hmng|𖬍𖬥𖬰 𖬑𖬶𖬥𖬰 𖬎𖬲𖬟}} {{IPA|Hmn|ʐɔ̃̌ ʐṳə hâɨ|}}) was an ethnic Hmong. He was a Major in the Royal Lao Army before 1975. He was a key follower of Shong Lue Yang, also known as the "Mother of Writing", who developed the script called Pahawh Hmong. After 1975, he was the main early leader of the Hmong ChaoFa movement in Laos,Statement Paper Presented By Chong Thao, an International Representative Hmong ChaoFa Federated State, Saysomboun Special Zone.{{cite web|url=http://www.docip.org/WGIP06/wgip06_91.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=February 11, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017041015/http://www.docip.org/WGIP06/wgip06_91.pdf |archive-date=October 17, 2006 }} until dying in his base area on Phou Bia Mountain in around 2000.{{cite book|last=Baird|first=Ian G.|title=The monks and the Hmong: The special relationship between the ChaoFa and the Tham Krabok Buddhist Temple in Saraburi Province, Thailand. In Vladimir Tikhonov and Torkel Brekke (eds.), Violent Buddhism – Buddhism and Militarism in Asia in the Twentieth Century.|year=2012|publisher=Routledge|location=London|pages=120–151}}

In the late 1970s he worked closely with Pa Kao Her, who later became the President of the Ethnic Liberation Organization of Laos (ELOL), which eventually became the ChaoFa Democratic Party. Pa Kao Her was assassinated in Chiang Rai, Thailand, in 2002.{{cite book|last=Baird|first=Ian G.|title=The monks and the Hmong: The special relationship between the ChaoFa and the Tham Krabok Buddhist Temple in Saraburi Province, Thailand. Pages 120-151 In Vladimir Tikhonov and Torkel Brekke (eds.), Violent Buddhism – Buddhism and Militarism in Asia in the Twentieth Century.|year=2012|publisher=Routledge|location=London|pages=120–151}}