• The following lists events that happened during 1978 in Cambodia. Chairman of the State Presidium: Khieu Samphan General Secretary of the Communist Party...
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    The Cambodian genocide was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic...
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    support to display the Khmer text in this article correctly. Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia. It borders...
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  • Vietnam. On 25 December 1978, 150,000 Vietnamese troops invaded Democratic Kampuchea and overran the Kampuchean Revolutionary Army in just two weeks, thereby...
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  • Malcolm Caldwell (category Deaths by firearm in Cambodia)
    executions by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and was widely criticised by numerous authorities for doing so. In December 1978, Caldwell was a member, along...
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    Democratic Kampuchea was the official name of the Cambodian state from 1976 to 1979, under the totalitarian dictatorship of Pol Pot and the Communist...
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    December 1978 in Kratié Province near the border with Vietnam (now Cheung Khlu, Pir Thnu, Snuol district) at a meeting of seventy dissident Cambodians determined...
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    state in Southeast Asia which existed from 1979 to 1989. It was a satellite state of Vietnam, founded in Cambodia by the Vietnamese-backed Kampuchean United...
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    population of Cambodia increased from about 946,000 to 2.4 million. By 1950, it had increased to between 3,710,107 and 4,073,967, and in 1962 it had reached...
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    Ba Chúc massacre (category 1978 in Cambodia)
    against Cambodia later that year, which would result in the overthrow of both the Khmer Rouge and its leader Pol Pot. Communists in Vietnam and Cambodia allied...
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    allied after the 1970 Cambodian coup d'état. The Kampuchea Revolutionary Army was slowly built up in the forests of eastern Cambodia during the late 1960s...
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    The Cambodian Civil War (Khmer: សង្គ្រាមស៊ីវិលកម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: Sângkréam Sivĭl Kâmpŭchéa) was a civil war in Cambodia fought between the forces of the...
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    Pol Pot (category Cambodian expatriates in France)
    quarter of Cambodia's entire population. His iron rule ended when Vietnam invaded Cambodia in December 1978, occupying the whole country in two weeks,...
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    Cambodia is a country in mainland Southeast Asia. It borders Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, the Gulf of Thailand and covers a total area of approximately 181...
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  • The Cambodian government has diplomatic relations with most countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, as well as all of...
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    October 2012) was a member of the Cambodian royal house who led the country as King and Prime Minister. In Cambodia, he is known as Samdech Euv (meaning...
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    government (1975–1979) in Cambodia were much exaggerated. Many scholars of Cambodia and intellectuals opposed to the US involvement in the Vietnam War denied...
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    Sino-Vietnamese War (category 1979 in China)
    in early 1979 between China and Vietnam. China launched an offensive ostensibly in response to Vietnam's invasion and occupation of Cambodia in 1978,...
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    Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (category Defunct prisons in Cambodia)
    Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill"), is a museum chronicling the Cambodian genocide. Located in Phnom Penh, the site is a former secondary school which was...
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    The Cambodian conflict or Khmer Rouge insurgency, was an armed conflict that began in 1979 when the Khmer Rouge government of Democratic Kampuchea was...
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  • Stuart Robert Glass (category People murdered in Cambodia)
    1978) was a Canadian adventurer and yachtsman killed by the Khmer Rouge in August 1978 while sailing a little yacht named Foxy Lady through Cambodian...
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    communist party in Cambodia. Its leader was Pol Pot, and its members were generally known as the Khmer Rouge. Originally founded in 1951, the party was...
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  • The history of Cambodia, a country in mainland Southeast Asia, can be traced back to Indian civilization. Detailed records of a political structure on...
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  • 100 riels After the Vietnamese attacked Khmer Rouge in 1978, the riel was re-established as Cambodia's national currency on 20 March 1980, initially at a...
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    The Cambodian campaign (also known as the Cambodian incursion and the Cambodian liberation) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia...
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  • The following lists events that happened during 1975 in Cambodia. Monarch: until 1 April: Lon Nol 1 April-12 April: Saukam Khoy 12 April-17 April: Sak...
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  • Vorn Vet (category People who died in the Cambodian genocide)
    Vorn Vet (Khmer: វ៉ន វេត; 1929–1978), born Sok Thuok (សុក ធួក), was a Cambodian politician who served as deputy prime minister for the economy of Democratic...
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  • Cambodian–Vietnamese War - the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. Franco-Thai War - the 1940-41 invasion of French Indochina via Laos and Cambodia. This disambiguation...
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    capital and most populous city of Cambodia. It has been the national capital since the French protectorate of Cambodia and has grown to become the nation's...
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    1978 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1978. 1978 (MCMLXXVIII)...
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