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This continues from PART ONE After the election victory of Sihanouk’s Sangkum in 1955, the new government soon facing suspicion from neighboring Thailand and South Vietnam. Both nations were fighting…
By 1956, the nationalist, long-term rebel and sometime politician Son Ngoc Thanh had seen the fragmentation of the Issarak movement he helped found in the 1940’s. Many of his former…
Son Ngoc Thanh (Vietnamese: Sơn Ngọc Thành, Khmer: សឺង ង៉ុកថាញ់) (December 7, 1908* – August 8, 1977) was a Cambodian nationalist and republican politician, with a long history as a…
On June 18,1936, Paule Monique Izzi was born in Saigon. Her father, Jean-François Izzi, was a French banker of Corsican, French and Italian descent, who was Director of Crédit Foncier in Saigon, and killed in World…
On March 12, 1945, King Norodom Sihanouk proclaimed an independent Kingdom of Kampuchea ( changing the official name of the country in French from Cambodge to Kampuchea) following a formal request by the…
The following is a list of some of the leading figures of the Khmer Issarak movement on the left and right from the 1940’s-1955. Many sources in French, English and…
This continues from PART ONE and PART TWO 1953 will be remembered as the year that Cambodia achieved independence after 90 years of French colonial rule. The year began with…
The following article follows from PART ONE. The piecing together of the rebel movements becomes a little complicated, as there were various name changes, so the glossary of terms used…
The Khmer Rouge is by far the most recognized militant organization in Cambodian history- and rightly so considering the group’s murderous regime which began in 1975. However, the Khmer Rouge…
Sam Sary (1917 – 1963?) was a prominent Cambodian politician, who fell from grace after a series of scandals both at home and abroad. Sam Sary was born on March…
Two years before Cambodian independence, the most important representative of Colonial France in the country was found lying dead in a pool of blood. Jean Léon François Marie de Raymond…
On August 13, 1969, Lon Nol formed a government as prime minister which in March 1970 would vote to depose Prince Sihanouk. On August 13, 1978: Three foreign sailors (Briton…
By 1942, with much of the motherland under Nazi occupation and the rest under the collaborating Vichy government rule, the few French left in Indochina were isolated and cut off…
*Continuing from PART I , PART II, PART III, PART IV, and PART V Hang Thun Hak 14 Oct 1972 – 16 May 1973: 214 days Hang Thun Hak was born on August 21, 1926…
*Continuing from PART I , PART II, PART III and PART IV Lon Nol 22 Oct 1966 – 2 May 1967: 192 days 14 Aug 1969 – 10 Mar 1972: 939 days Total: 1,131…
*Continuing from PART I , PART II and PART III Pho Proeung 18 Apr 1960 – 28 Jan 1961: 286 days Born August 12, 1903 to an aristocratic family in Phnom Penh, Pho…
