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Casting the first stone: the ‘palace coup’ of August 1945

By the middle of 1945, it was becoming clear to anyone who cared to pay attention that Imperial Japan was doomed. With it, the status of those Khmer nationalists who had colluded with the Japanese in disarming the Vichy French administration became increasingly uncertain. Son Ngoc Thanh, who had returned from Japan early in 1945 [...]

2010 02 10 Stuff Comments (1)

Piglets and sloganeering in Kompong Speu

Another new post from another new author. As the Democratic Kampuchea side of things is already well covered here, I’m hoping to add some information on  the margins – the political context, the Sangkum, what came before and what developed afterwards, in an effort to look at the forces in opposition to which Democratic Kampuchea [...]

2010 02 06 Stuff Comments (7)