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Khieu Sampan Biography and Timeline

Follow Khieu Sampan through 3 dated historical records for Kampuchea.

Khieu Sampan, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

3Distinct records
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1979–1981Years on this page

1979

KCP

Politics / Communist Party

The party founded the Patriotic and Democratic Front of the Great National Union of Kampuchea as a united front in September 1979 to fight the PRK and the Vietnamese, led by Khieu Sampan. The armed forces under the command of the party, what remained of the erstwhile Peoples National Liberation Armed Forces of Kampuchea, were renamed National Army of Democratic Kampuchea

National Army of Democratic Kampuchea

Politics / Communist Party

The armed forces under the command of the party, what remained of the erstwhile Peoples National Liberation Armed Forces of Kampuchea, were renamed National Army of Democratic Kampuchea

1981

National Army of Democratic Kampuchea

Politics / Communist Party

The party is dissolved, and substituted by the Party of Democratic Kampuchea

Records, sources and methodology

These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.