Khmer Issarak

Khmer Issarak is the name of a political movement and guerrilla group in French Indochina , which aimed at the national independence of Cambodia from French colonial rule. The movement was founded by Cambodian nationalists with support from Thailand during World War II . In the course of the Indochina War , a communist-oriented guerrilla movement based on the Vietnamese model was built under the direction of Việt Minh .

history

In Thailand, leading politicians tried to install an independence movement under the Khmer in French Indochina, among other things to support their own expansion plans with regard to the Cambodian provinces of Battambang and Siem Reap, which are under French rule . In 1940 the nationalist Cambodian monk Phiset Phanit founded the Cambodian Independence Party (Phak Khmer Issarak) with the support of Thai . After the French had restored their control over Indochina after the end of the Second World War, an amnesty was pronounced against the Issarak, which was not used by the leadership, but by numerous cadres.

From 1948 onwards, the Indochinese Communist Party began to set up a Pro-Vietnamese guerrilla organization. The lead was the Vietnamese party cadre Nguyen Thanh Son . In March 1950, leaders of the Issarak movement gathered in Ha Tien, Vietnam, and founded a Cambodian resistance government . In 1951 a revolutionary people's party of the Khmer , based on the Việt Minh, was founded under the leadership of Sơn Ngọc Minh .

The Khmer Issarak did not take part in the Indochina Conference because France had refused to participate. After the end of the Indochina War, the legal Prachacheon ( People's Party ) led by the Khmer Issarak received around 4% of the vote in the 1955 elections.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Christopher E. Goscha : Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945-1954). An International and Interdisciplinary Approach. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 2011, ISBN 978-0-8248-3604-7 , pp. 242 f.
^ Jacques Dalloz: Dictionnaire de la guerre d'Indochine. Armand Colin, Paris 2001, ISBN 978-2-200-26925-8 , pp. 128 f.

[Goscha2011242f-1] Christopher E. Goscha : Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945-1954). An International and Interdisciplinary Approach. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 2011, ISBN 978-0-8248-3604-7 , pp. 242 f.

[2] Jacques Dalloz: Dictionnaire de la guerre d'Indochine. Armand Colin, Paris 2001, ISBN 978-2-200-26925-8 , pp. 128 f.