On 9 March 1945, during the Japanese occupation of Cambodia, young king Norodom Sihanouk proclaimed an independent Kingdom of Cambodia, following a formal request by the Japanese. Shortly thereafter the Japanese government nominally ratified the independence of Cambodia. In 1946, Cambodia was granted ...
Cambodia’s history is messier than most, having been the unfortunate piggy-in-the-middle for centuries between the Thais and Vietnamese, the French and Japanese, Communism and the United States. The Kingdom of Cambodia became an independent country in 1952, following nearly a century of French...
The states that arose in these regions recognized Funan’s suzerainty until the middle of the sixth century, after which they became independent. In the seventh and eighth centuries the states of Land Chenla and Water Chenla were established in Cambodia. In this period the economic position of...
摘要: The last decade has treated Cambodia much better than the preceding decades. After a century of French Colonial Rule, Cambodia became independent in 1953, and then followed the chaos of US bombing during our Vietnam war, civil war, the despotism of the...
The peak of the conflict (1975-1979) occurred during the détente of the East-West conflict, when the international relations became more complicated, the country being the victim of the international ignorance produced also by the intense preoccupations of the superpowers to limit the nuclear ...
The king placed the country under French protection in 1863, and it became part of French Indochina in 1887. Following Japanese occupation in World War II, Cambodia gained full independence from France in 1953. In April 1975, after a seven-year struggle, communist Khmer Rouge forces captured ...
many of whom were purged. At the same time, the Khmer Rouge forces became stronger and more independent of their Vietnamese patrons. By 1974, Lon Nol's control was reduced to small enclaves around the cities and main transportation routes. More than 2 million refugees from the war lived in...
In September 1993 the government ratified a new constitution restoring the monarchy and establishing the Kingdom of Cambodia. Sihanouk became king for the second time. After the 1993 elections, no foreign countries continued to recognize the DK as Cambodia's legal government. The DK lost its UN ...
The arrest of Kem Sokha and growing pressure on independent media and rights groups have drawn condemnation from the United States and other Western countries, which have raised doubts over whether a general election next year can be fair. But Hun Sen, one of Asia's longest serving rulers, ha...
He also served on the Secretariat of the Supreme National Council, the body representing the four Cambodian factions which had signed the Paris Peace Agreements. During the period of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), he became an official spokesman for the State of ...