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Lasting for four years (between 1975 and 1979), the Cambodian Genocide was an explosion of mass violence that saw between 1.5 and 3 million people killed at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a communist political group.
Shortly after the signing of the peace agreement in 1991, Norodom Sihanouk (with palms together) returned to Cambodia. He was later restored to the throne. To his left is Yasushi Akashi, special representative of the UN secretary-general for Cambodia.
Norodom Sihanouk. Norodom Sihanouk [a] [b] ( / ˈsiːhənʊk /; 31 October 1922 – 15 October 2012) was a Cambodian politician, film director, and composer who led Cambodia in various capacities throughout his long career, most often as both King and Prime Minister of Cambodia. In Cambodia, he is known as Samdech Euv [c] (meaning "King Father").
The monarchy had been in existence since at least 68 AD except during its abolition from 1970 to 1993. Since 1993, the king of Cambodia has been an elected monarch, making Cambodia one of the few elective monarchies of the world. The king is elected for life by the Royal Council of the Throne, which consists of several senior political and ...
Apr 15, 2018 · AP Photo/Heng Sinith. Twenty years ago, on April 15, 1998, Pol Pot, the leader of Cambodia’s genocidal government during the late 1970s, died in his sleep at the age of 73. Born Saloth Sar, Pol ...
Oct 15, 2009 · Norodom Sihamoni is the king of Cambodia who succeeded his father, King Norodom Sihanouk, in October 2004 after Sihanouk abdicated the throne. Sihamoni was the elder of Sihanouk’s two sons with his last queen, Monineath. At the time of Sihamoni’s birth, Cambodia was becoming independent of France.
For three years, eight months, and twenty days, the Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot ruled Cambodia. They enacted a program of harsh internment, torture, and subjection of the Cambodia people to inhumane living conditions, starvation, forced labor, forced marriage, and execution.
