POL215Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Planned Economy, Hun Sen, Funcinpec
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Shared colonial history (both part of french indochina) Regimes in both countries heavily influenced by the cold war. Main cleavage of political competition is the royalist/communist divide. Indochina: the french return and the nationalist resistance (khmer issarak, independence achieved in 1953/1954 (geneva conference, french didn"t place importance on infrastructure in colonial. Sihanouk takes a position of neutrality because he doesn"t want to face backlash from the communists in the country or go against the us, for domestic accommodation and to value out the costs of choosing sides. 1970 coup by lon nol (who was us backed) and the creations of the khmer. 1973 us withdraw from vietnam and withdrawal of vietnamese troops: was repressive and tried to exterminate ethnically vietnamese. Civil war: communists (backed by sihanouk) vs. rightists from cambodia. April 7th 1975 khmer rouge seizes phnom penh, country is still not. 1. 6-1. 9 million people killed from labour and killings: killed thousands of officials affiliated with the previous republic (lon.
