Khmer Issarak

E682019

Khmer Issarak was a Cambodian anti-colonial and nationalist resistance movement active in the mid-20th century, fighting first against French rule and later other foreign influences in Cambodia.

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Khmer Issarak canonical 1
Khmer Issarak movement 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf anti-colonial movement
armed resistance group
activeInPeriod mid-20th century
areaOfOperations Battambang region NERFINISHED
Siem Reap region NERFINISHED
northwestern Cambodia
conflict First Indochina War NERFINISHED
country Cambodia
dissolutionCause Cambodian independence in 1953
absorption of some factions into Vietnamese-led communist structures
integration of some members into official Cambodian politics
endTime 1950s
goal end of foreign domination in Cambodia
independence of Cambodia from France
hadFaction left-wing Khmer Issarak faction
non-communist nationalist faction
right-wing Khmer Issarak faction
hasAlternativeName Free Khmer NERFINISHED
Issarak movement NERFINISHED
historicalContext collapse of French Indochina
decolonization of Southeast Asia
ideology Cambodian nationalism
anti-colonialism
influenced Khmer Rouge cadres NERFINISHED
early Cambodian communist movement
languageOfCommunication Khmer NERFINISHED
mainLocation Cambodia NERFINISHED
notableEvent armed attacks on French colonial posts in Cambodia
cooperation with Viet Minh units along the Cambodian-Vietnamese border
notableLeader Dap Chhuon NERFINISHED
Pach Chhoeun NERFINISHED
Prince Norodom Chantaraingsey NERFINISHED
Son Ngoc Thanh NERFINISHED
opposedTo French Indochina administration NERFINISHED
French colonial rule in Cambodia
partOf wider anti-French resistance in Indochina
politicalPosition Cambodian nationalist
anti-imperialist
relatedTo Democratic Kampuchea (historical continuity of some cadres) NERFINISHED
Khmer Viet Minh NERFINISHED
startTime 1940s
supportedBy Communist Party of Vietnam NERFINISHED
Thailand NERFINISHED
Viet Minh NERFINISHED
usedTactics guerrilla warfare

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Indochinese Communist Party influenced Khmer Issarak
this entity surface form: Khmer Issarak movement