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Modern Cambodia: Peace Efforts and The Free Elections
Modern Cambodia: Peace Efforts and The Free Elections
Modern Cambodia
After the fall of the Pol Pot regime of Democratic Kampuchea, Cambodia was under Vietnamese occupation and a pro-Hanoi government, the People's Republic of Kampuchea was established. A civil war raged during the 1980s opposing the government's Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces against the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea, a government in exile composed of three Cambodian political factions: Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Funcinpec party, the Party of Democratic Kampuchea (often referred to as the Khmer Rouge) and the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF). Peace efforts intensified in 1989 and 1991 with two international conferences in Paris, and a UN peacekeeping mission helped maintain a cease-fire. As a part of the peace effort, UN-sponsored elections were held in 1993 helped restore some semblance of normality as did the rapid diminishment of the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1990s. Norodom Sihanouk was reinstated as King. A coalition government, formed after national elections in 1998, brought renewed political stability and the surrender of remaining Khmer Rouge forces in 1998.
Modern Cambodia
Modern Cambodia
Notes
[1] "Bloody coup" theory (http:/ / www. mekong. net/ Cambodia/ hun_sen1. htm) [2] Matthew Grainger, EU media guru says Ranariddh guilty (http:/ / www. phnompenhpost. com/ index. php/ component/ option,com_jcs/ Itemid,0/ aid,8547/ lang,en/ layout,form/ view,jcs/ ) [3] Tony Kevin, U.S. Errs in Cambodia Policy, FEER 21 May 1998 (http:/ / www. acic. info/ new_article/ CambodiaAndSoutheastAsia. pdf) [4] Dr. Michael Vickery, The July 1997 shootout (http:/ / www. phnompenhpost. com/ index. php/ component/ option,com_jcs/ Itemid,49/ aid,867/ lang,en/ layout,form/ view,jcs/ ) [5] Cambodia: July 1997: Shock and Aftermath by Brad Adams (http:/ / www. hrw. org/ ja/ news/ 2007/ 07/ 27/ cambodia-july-1997-shock-and-aftermath) [6] http:/ / www. liberation. fr/ monde/ 0101221900-cambodge-les-royalistes-assiegesaides-des-khmers-rouges-ils-defendent-leur-dernier-bastion-attaque-par-hun-sen
External links
Cambodia: July 1997: Shock and Aftermath by Brad Adams (http://www.hrw.org/ja/news/2007/07/27/ cambodia-july-1997-shock-and-aftermath)
References
Original text from U.S. State Department Background Note: Cambodia (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/ 2732.htm#history) Michael Vickery, The real story of Cambodia cries out to be told, The Nation, 25 September 1997, Bangkok Michael Vickery, Flip side view of Cambodia's woes, The Nation, 18 November 1997, Bangkok
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