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GRUNK

Kampuchea · Politics / Communist Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1970

Sihanouk1970

Beijing · Politics / Communist Party

Sihanouk, in exile in Beijing, makes an alliance with the Khmer Rouge and becomes the nominal head of a Khmer Rouge-dominated Government-in-exile (known by its French acronym, GRUNK) backed by the Peoples Republic of China

Names involved

Sihanouk

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