Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
As late as 1972–1973, it was a commonly held belief, both within and outside Cambodia, that the war was essentially a foreign conflict that had not fundamentally altered the nature of the Khmer people. [106]
The conflict led to economic sanctions on Cambodia by the United States and its allies, which made reconstruction difficult and left the country extremely poor. [11] Peace efforts intensified between 1989 and 1991, with two international conferences in Paris and a UN peacekeeping mission that helped maintain a ceasefire.
The Final Act of the Paris Conference on Cambodia; Agreement on the Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict; Agreement Concerning the Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and Inviolability, Neutrality and National Unity of Cambodia; Declaration on the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Cambodia [2]
Cambodian Civil War; Cambodian conflict (1979–1998) Cambodian rebellion (1811–1812) Cambodian rebellion (1820) Cambodian rebellion (1840) Cambodian–Dutch War; Cambodian–Spanish War; Cambodian–Vietnamese War; 1997 Cambodian coup d'état
The humanitarian consequences of U.S. bombing were high. The U.S. may have dropped a tonnage of bombs on Cambodia nearly equal to all the bombs dropped by the U.S. in World War II. Estimates of Cambodian military and civilian deaths resulting from the 1969-1973 bombing range from 40,000 to more than 150,000. [1] [2] [3]
In the 1990s, Licadho published reports of child soldiers within the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). [3] Members of the RCAF who joined as children were permitted to remain in the institution after civil conflict ended and they entered adulthood. [1] Efforts at demobilisation of children took place in the 1990s. [2]
After being embroiled in civil conflict from the late 1960s until the early 1990s, on March 16, 1992 the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), under UNSYG Special Representative Yasushi Akashi and Lt. General John Sanderson, arrived in Cambodia to begin implementation of the UN Settlement Plan, that was concluded as a result of the Paris Peace Accords of 1991.
[25] Similarly, Forrest B. Lindley, a U.S. Army Special Forces captain operating near the Cambodian border, stated that "I was told there would be a change of government in Cambodia. The source was higher up the US Special Forces command system. Two companies of Khmer Special Forces troops were then sent into [Cambodia]" just before the coup. [25]