Cambodia's "Life"

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  • Controlled by France

    Cambodia becomes a controlled country of France; for 90 years.

  • World War 2

    Cambodia is occupied by Japan during World War II.

  • Overthrown

    Lon Nol is overthrown

  • Genocide

    On December 25, 1978, Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Cambodia

  • Killing Fields

    Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War

  • Pol Pot

    Pol Pot was a Cambodian Communist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until his death in 1998.

  • Mekong Bridge

    The first Mekong bridge is opened up.
  • Norodom Sihanouk

    Norodom Sihanouk

    Norodom Sihanouk was the King of Cambodia from 1941 to 1955 and was reelected from 1993 to 2004.
  • Hun Sen

    Hun Sen

    34th and current Prime Minister of Cambodia, President of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP)

  • More about the Genocide

  • Norodom Sihamoni

    Norodom Sihamoni

    He is the new king of Cambodia, his father was the last leader; which he died in 2004 just as Norodom Sihamoni was turing 14.

  • Illegal Timber Exports

    Cambodia is accused of smuggling timber to Vietnam. (http://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/cambodian-vietnam-wood/3849619.html)