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At the time, Pierre-Paul de La Grandière, colonial governor of Cochinchina, was carrying out plans to expand French rule over the whole of Vietnam and viewed Cambodia as a buffer between French possessions in Vietnam and Siam. [1] [2] On 11 August 1863, Norodom signed a treaty acknowledging a French protectorate over his kingdom.
Cambodia gained its independence in November 1953, thanks to Prince Norodom Sihanouk. [2] France and Cambodia enjoy close relations, stemming partly from the days of the French Protectorate and partly from the role played by France in the signing of the peace agreements in Paris in 1991, [3] and further cemented by the French language. These ...
French Indochina in the 1940s was divided into four protectorates (Cambodia, Laos, Tonkin, and Annam) and one colony (Cochinchina). The latter three territorial divisions made up Vietnam . In 1940, the French controlled 23 million Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians with 12,000 French soldiers, about 40,000 Vietnamese soldiers, and the Sûreté ...
During his lifetime, Cambodia was under various regimes, from French colonial rule (until 1953), a Japanese puppet state (1945), an independent kingdom (1953–1970), a military republic (1970–1975), the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979), a Vietnamese-backed communist regime (1979–1989), a transitional communist regime (1989–1993) to ...
By 1943, all of the colonies, except for Indochina under Japanese control, had joined the Free French cause. [111] The overseas empire helped liberate France as 300,000 North African Arabs fought in the ranks of the Free French. [112] However Charles de Gaulle had no intention of liberating the colonies.
The rule of the Khmer Rouge is over. 1989: 26 September: The last Vietnamese troops withdrew from Cambodia. 1992: 16 March: A United Nations peacekeeping force, the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), began monitoring Cambodia. 1993: May: Cambodia held free elections. The Khmer Rouge boycotted them. 24 September
1860–1960: King of Cambodia (under French protectorate in 1863–1945 and 1945–1953, and Japanese puppet state in 1945) 1960 : Chairman of the Regency Council; 1960–1970: Chief of State of Cambodia; 1970–1975: President of the Khmer Republic; 1975 : Chairman the Supreme Committee
The Japanese occupation of Cambodia ended with the official surrender of Japan in August 1945. After Allied military units entered Cambodia, the Japanese military forces present in the country were disarmed and repatriated. The French were able to reimpose the colonial administration in Phnom Penh in October the same year.