Achan Chanh Ly supported various other insurgent leaders, including Chao
Sanhprasith (Sith) Na Champassak, a key insurgent leader in southern Laos,
based in Ubon Ratchathani, after he escaped from a re-education camp in
Vieng Xay in 1981. While most other insurgent-supporting Lao monks eventually
became refugees in the United States, Canada, and France in the late 1980s and
early 1990s, Achan Chanh Ly stayed in Thailand until his inauspicious death in
late 2004 (see below).