crazy Cambodian independence

By lamorris

  • Cambodia gained independence from france

  • Sihanouk pursues a political career

  • Sihanouk's father dies

  • Sihanouk breaks off relations with the US

  • US begins a secret bombing campaign against North Vietnamese forces

  • Lon Nol overthrows Sihanouk in coup

  • Lon Nol is overthrown

  • The country is re-named Democratic Kampuchea

  • Fighting breaks out with Vietnam

  • Vietnamese forces invade in a lightning assault

  • The Vietnamese take Phnom Penh

  • Vietnamese Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party wins

  • Hun Sen becomes prime minister

  • Vietnamese troops withdraw

  • A peace agreement is signed in Paris

  • General election sees the royalist Funcinpec party win the most seats

  • Thousands of Khmer Rouge guerrillas surrender

  • Ieng Sary forms a new party

  • Hun Sen mounts a coup against the prime minister

  • Pol Pot dies in his jungle hideout

  • Elections are won by Hun Sen's CPP

  • Ranariddh is tried in his absence

  • US-based Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF) members convicted of 2000 attack in Phnom Penh

  • A law setting up a tribunal to bring genocide charges against Khmer Rouge leaders is passed

  • First bridge across the Mekong River opens

  • project website citing

    1) www.lonelyplanet.com/cambodia/history

    2) https://www.britannica.com/place/Cambodia
    3) www.tourismcambodia.com › About Cambodia
    4) www.cambodiatribunal.org/history/cambodian-history/
    5) https://monthlyreview.org/2013/11/01/cambodian-political-history/