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Khmer Republic
សាធារណរដ្ឋខ្មែរ(Khmer) Sathéarônârôdth Khmêr République khmère(French)
Unitary presidential constitutional republic (de jure)[2]Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic under a military dictatorship (de facto)
President
• 1970–1972
Cheng Heng
• 1972–1975
Lon Nol
• 1975
Saukam Khoy (acting)
• 1975
Sak Sutsakhan[a]
Prime Minister
• 1970–1971
Lon Nol
• 1971–1972
Sisowath Sirik Matak
• 1972
Sơn Ngọc Thành
• 1972–1973
Hang Thun Hak
• 1973
In Tam
• 1973–1975
Long Boret
Legislature
Parliament
• Upper house
Senate
• Lower house
National Assembly
Historical era
Cold War, Cambodian Civil War
• Coup d'état
18 March 1970
• Republic proclaimed
9 October 1970
• Constitution
12 May 1972
• Fall of Phnom Penh
17 April 1975
Population
• 1975[3]
7,952,000–8,102,000
Currency
Riel (៛) (KHR)
Time zone
UTC+07:00 (ICT)
Date format
dd/mm/yyyy
Driving side
right
ISO 3166 code
KH
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of Cambodia
Kampuchea
GRUNK
Today part of
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The Khmer Republic (Khmer: សាធារណរដ្ឋខ្មែរ, Sathéarônârôdth Khmêr; French: République khmère) was a Cambodian state under the United States-backed military dictatorship of Marshal Lon Nol from 1970 to 1975. Its establishment was formally declared on 9 October 1970, following the 18 March 1970 coup d'état which saw the overthrow of Norodom Sihanouk's government and the abolishment of the Cambodian monarchy.
The main cause of the coup was Norodom Sihanouk's tolerance of North Vietnamese military activity within Cambodia's borders; Vietnamese communist forces had gained de facto control over vast areas of eastern Cambodia as a result. Another important factor was the dire state of the Cambodian economy, an indirect result of Sihanouk's policies of pursuing neutrality.[4][page needed]
With the removal of Sihanouk, the existing Kingdom of Cambodia became a republic, officially removing Sisowath Kossamak. The character of the new regime was far-right and militaristic;[5] most significantly, it ended Sihanouk's period of covert co-operation with the North Vietnamese regime and the Viet Cong, and aligned Cambodia with South Vietnam in the ongoing Second Indochina War. The Khmer Republic was opposed within the Cambodian borders by the National United Front of Kampuchea (Front uni national de Kampuchéa, FUNK), a relatively broad alliance between Sihanouk, his supporters, and the Communist Party of Kampuchea.
The insurgency itself was conducted by the CPNLAF, the Cambodian People's National Liberation Armed Forces: they were backed by both the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Liberation Front (NLF, better known as the Viet Cong), who occupied parts of Cambodia as part of their ongoing war with the South Vietnamese government.
Despite the large quantities of military and financial aid from the United States, the Khmer National Armed Forces (Forces armées nationales khmères, or FANK) were poorly trained and unable to defeat either the CPNLAF or the Vietnamese forces of the PAVN and NLF. The Republic eventually fell on 17 April 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh and briefly restored the Kingdom of Cambodia before renaming itself Democratic Kampuchea on 5 January 1976.
^"The Constitution of the Khmer Republic". Open Development Cambodia. 10 May 1972.
^"The Constitution of the Khmer Republic". Open Development Cambodia. 10 May 1972.
^Sharp, Bruce (1 April 2005). "Counting Hell: The Death Toll of the Khmer Rouge Regime in Cambodia". Retrieved 21 January 2013.
^Milton Osborne, Sihanouk, Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness. Silkworm 1994. ISBN 978-0-8248-1639-1.
^Path, Kosal (2017). Cambodia's Foreign Relations in Regional and Global Contexts. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. p. 15. ISBN 9789924913412.
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