sentences:  Following, World War II, the French colonialists appointed Lyfoung district head ("chaomuong"), giving Hmong people direct representation at the national level for the first time.The move helped to widen the growing gap between Lyfoung and Faydang Lobliayao, another Hmong leader who had been promised the earlier "tasseng" position by the French.Lobliayao went on to join the communist/nationalist struggle against the French rulers (with the Pathet lao) and later the Royal Lao Government.