Plots & Conspiracies- Son Ngoc Thanh & The Khmer Serei II: 1957-60
This continues from PART ONE After the election victory of Sihanouk’s Sangkum in 1955, the new government soon facing suspicion
Read moreThis continues from PART ONE After the election victory of Sihanouk’s Sangkum in 1955, the new government soon facing suspicion
Read moreBy 1956, the nationalist, long-term rebel and sometime politician Son Ngoc Thanh had seen the fragmentation of the Issarak movement
Read moreSon Ngoc Thanh (Vietnamese: Sơn Ngọc Thành, Khmer: សឺង ង៉ុកថាញ់) (December 7, 1908* – August 8, 1977) was a Cambodian
Read moreOn 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
Read moreOn March 12, 1945, King Norodom Sihanouk proclaimed an independent Kingdom of Kampuchea ( changing the official name of the
Read moreThe following is a list of some of the leading figures of the Khmer Issarak movement on the left and
Read moreThis continues from PART ONE and PART TWO 1953 will be remembered as the year that Cambodia achieved independence after
Read moreThe following article follows from PART ONE. The piecing together of the rebel movements becomes a little complicated, as there
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Read moreOn August 13, 1969, Lon Nol formed a government as prime minister which in March 1970 would vote to depose
Read moreBy 1942, with much of the motherland under Nazi occupation and the rest under the collaborating Vichy government rule, the
Read more*Continuing from PART I , PART II, PART III, PART IV, and PART V Hang Thun Hak 14 Oct 1972 – 16 May 1973: 214
Read more*Continuing from PART I , PART II, PART III and PART IV Lon Nol 22 Oct 1966 – 2 May 1967: 192 days 14
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