MOULINAKA

MOULINAKA (for French Mouvement pour la libération nationale du Kampuchéa ; khm. លី ណា កា; English Movement for the National Liberation of Kampuchea ; German movement for the national liberation of Kampuchea ) was a military organization devoted to Norodom Sihanouk , which was run by a armed group was formed on the Thai - Cambodian border.

history

MOULINAKA was founded on August 31, 1979 by Kong Sileah, a naval captain during the Khmer Republic who lived in France after rejecting General Dien Del's offer to participate in the formation of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KPNLF). Sileah wanted a uniform organization instead of a front and a uniform command structure. It was the first resistance group to promise loyalty to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, co-founded the monarchist FUNCINPEC party in 1982 and later became its military arm, the Armée nationale sihanoukiste (ANS). MOULINAKA received most of its support from Cambodian exiles living in France. Their support base was in the refugee camps along the Thai-Cambodian border, mainly in the Nong Chan refugee camp near Aranyaprathet.

Sileah died on August 16, 1980 at the age of 45, apparently of malaria . The paratrooper colonel Nhem Sophon took over the command of MOULINAKA. General In Tam later took over ANS military operations. In 1985 he was succeeded by Sihanouk's son Norodom Ranariddh .

In 1992 Prum Neakareach founded a splinter group of FUNCINPEC, the MOULINAKA Nakator-Sou (Engl. Kampuchean Freedom Fighter Party ). The party took part in the 1993 elections and won a seat in Kampong Cham , but was disbanded in 1998 due to internal power struggles.

MOULINAKA joined the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of Hun Sen after the 1993 elections , for FUNCINPEC in view of the previous joint struggle against the provisional regime of the People's Republic of Kampuchea ( ultimately renamed the State of Cambodia ) and after they left MOULINAKA a ministerial post at their own expense had a bitter disappointment.

Web links

Special Cambodge. France 2 ( Patrick Poivre d'Arvor ), July 4th 1980, archived on INA (video about the troops of MOULINAKA, contains an interview with Kong Sileah about 40 days before his death)

Individual evidence

↑ Cambodia. Major Political Developments, 1977–81. In: Country Studies Series. Library of Congress Country Studies , Federal Research Division.
^ William Shawcross: The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust, and Modern Conscience. Simon & Schuster, New York 1984, ISBN 978-0-671-60640-4 , p. 229 ( limited preview in Google book search).
^ Justin J. Corfield: A History of the Cambodian Non-Communist Resistance, 1975-1983. Center of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University , Clayton (Victoria, Australia) 1991, p. 11.
↑ Craig Etcheson: Civil War and the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea. In: Third World Quarterly. Vol. 9, No. 1, January 1987, p. 8.
↑ Sorpong Peou: Intervention & Change in Cambodia. Towards Democracy? Silkworm, Chiang Mai 2000, ISBN 978-974-7551-29-7 .

[1] Cambodia. Major Political Developments, 1977–81. In: Country Studies Series. Library of Congress Country Studies , Federal Research Division.

[2] William Shawcross: The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust, and Modern Conscience. Simon & Schuster, New York 1984, ISBN 978-0-671-60640-4 , p. 229 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[3] Justin J. Corfield: A History of the Cambodian Non-Communist Resistance, 1975-1983. Center of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University , Clayton (Victoria, Australia) 1991, p. 11.

[4] Craig Etcheson: Civil War and the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea. In: Third World Quarterly. Vol. 9, No. 1, January 1987, p. 8.

[5] Sorpong Peou: Intervention & Change in Cambodia. Towards Democracy? Silkworm, Chiang Mai 2000, ISBN 978-974-7551-29-7 .