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The Fall of Phnom Penh was the capture of Phnom Penh, capital of the Khmer Republic (in present-day Cambodia), by the Khmer Rouge on 17 April 1975, effectively ending the Cambodian Civil War. At the beginning of April 1975, Phnom Penh, one of the last remaining strongholds of the Khmer Republic, was surrounded by the Khmer Rouge and totally ...
There is no fall break; however, students get to have a day off on November 20 (Revolution Day). The calendar is designed by the Secretary of Public Education ( Spanish : Secretaría de Educación Pública , SEP), the government department overseeing public education aln in Mexico with arrangements of the leaders of the National Educational ...
After the fall of the Khmer Rouge and the conflict with Vietnam, Cambodia's economic situation was disastrous, with the plundering of the country's resources by Vietnamese troops only making matters worse. During the first six months of 1979, approximately 80,000 people fled from Cambodia to reach Thailand.
Thousands of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime gathered in Phnom Penh at an event organized by the Cambodian People's party to mark 40 years since the fall of the extremist regime.
Cambodia broke relations with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 1979: 7 January: Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Vietnamese troops captured Phnom Penh establishing the People's Republic of Kampuchea. The rule of the Khmer Rouge is over. 1989: 26 September: The last Vietnamese troops withdrew from Cambodia. 1992: 16 March
Cambodia is a constitutional monarchy with a unitary structure [11] and a parliamentary form of government. [12] The constitution, which prescribes the governing framework, was promulgated in September 1993 by the Constituent Assembly that resulted from the 1993 general election conducted under the auspices of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).
In 1997, Cambodia established a Khmer Rouge Trial Task Force to create a legal and judicial structure to try the remaining leaders for war crimes and other crimes against humanity, but progress was slow, mainly because the Cambodian government of ex-Khmer Rouge Cadre Hun Sen, despite its origins in the Vietnamese-backed regime of the 1980s, was ...
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