Cambodia a little past life

By pershingc

  • Cambodia officially gained its independence from France

  • Geneva Conference: French withdraw from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.

  • King Sihanouk abdicated in favour of his father, Norodom Suramarit.

  • Cambodia severed ties with South Vietnam

  • General Lon Nol overthrew Sihanouk and established a republic start of the Cambodian civil war and the US Cambodian campaign.

  • The Khmer Rouge allied with Sihanouk captured Phnom Penh and declared the establishment of kingdom of Cambodia

  • Sihanouk exiled and establishment of Democratic Kampuchea under total Loumer Rouge control

  • Cambodia broke relations with the socialist republic of Vietnam

  • Cambodia Vietnamese war: Vietnamese troops captured Phnom Punh establishing the peoples republic of Kapcheau.

  • The last Vietnamese troops withdrew from Cambodia.

  • A United Nations peacekeeping force, the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), began monitoring Cambodia.

  • Cambodia held free elections. The Khmer Rouge boycotted them.

  • Thousands of Khmer Rouge guerrillas surrender in government amnesty.

  • Death of Pol Pot.

  • An Angkor newspaper reported that Suvanant Kongying, a Thai actress, had claimed that Angkor Wat rightfully belonged to Thailand.

  • Thai television programs were banned from broadcasting in Cambodia

  • 2003 Phnom Penh riots: Nationalist rioters destroyed the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh.

  • Cambodian parliamentary election: Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party won a majority of seats in the National Assembly.

  • King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated. His son Norodom Sihamoni was crowned as his successor.

  • Former King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk died in Beijing at the age of 89.

  • Cambodia links

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13006828#:~:text=1994%20%2D%20Thousands%20of%20Khmer%20Rouge,is%20granted%20amnesty%20by%20Sihanouk.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Cambodian_history#Before_1st_century
    https://gsp.yale.edu/case-studies/cambodian-genocide-program/publications/chronology-cambodian-events-1950