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  2. Cambodian Civil War - Wikipedia

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    A memorial to the civil war in Siem Reap, Cambodia, with a rusted wreck of a Soviet-built T-54 main battle tank used during the war. Large numbers of T-54s were used by Cambodia during and after the bloody fighting of the conflict between 1970 and 1975, with many such wrecks (in various states of abandonment and disrepair) scattered all over ...

  3. Cambodian genocide - Wikipedia

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    On 17 April 1975, the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh and ended the civil war. Mortality estimates for the Cambodian Civil War vary widely. Sihanouk used a figure of 600,000 civil war deaths, [42] while Elizabeth Becker reported over a million civil war deaths, military and civilian included. [43]

  4. 1970 Cambodian coup d'état - Wikipedia

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    These events marked the start of the Cambodian Civil War, pitting Lon Nol's regime backed by US air power against the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam. Lon Nol fled Cambodia in 1975 right before the Khmer Rouge's seizure of power.

  5. Fall of Phnom Penh - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. From Cambodia to Bangladesh: a brief history of Henry ... - AOL

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    The fissures from the disastrous military campaign led to an eight year civil war between the Cambodian government and the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot. The war killed an estimated ...

  7. Timeline of Cambodian history - Wikipedia

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    Cambodia officially gained its independence from France. 1955: 2 March: King Sihanouk abdicated in favour of his father, Norodom Suramarit. 1963: 27 August: Cambodia severed ties with South Vietnam. 1970: 18 March: General Lon Nol overthrew Sihanouk and established a republic. Start of the Cambodian Civil War and the US Cambodian Campaign: 1975 ...

  8. Cambodia's legacy of war remains deadly as 5 are killed by ...

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    There were 65,043 casualties, including 19,822 deaths, caused by land mines and other explosive remnants of war from January 1979 to February 2024, the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance ...

  9. Cambodian humanitarian crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Cambodian humanitarian crisis from 1969 to 1993 consisted of a series of related events which resulted in the death, displacement, or resettlement abroad of millions of Cambodians. The crisis had several phases. First was the Cambodian Civil War between the Lon Nol government and the Khmer Rouge from 1970 to 1975.