Career
Commando chief of the SDECE"s 11th Shock Parachutist Regiment (11e Régiment Parachutiste de Choc). Maquis chief in French Indochina through the GCMA (1953–1955). During the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in April 1954 Jean Sassi led Mèo partisans (GCMA) in Operation Condor.
Jean Sassi and his Hmong troops in Laos, Official video published by the French Ministry of Defense.