Pol Pot1946
Appointed Member of Kampuchean Communist Party
Kampuchea · Politics / Communist Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Appointed Member of Kampuchean Communist Party
Founded when the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) was divided into separate Kampuchean, Lao, and Vietnamese communist parties.
Joins a communist cell in a secret organisation known as the Cercle Marxiste which had taken control of the Khmer Students Association (AER) that same year.
Pol Pot helps tranform the Khmer Students Association (KSA), to which most of the 200 or so Khmer students in Paris belonged, into an organisation for nationalist and leftist ideas.
Pol Pot, Hou Yuon, Ieng Sary, and other leftists gained notoriety by sending an open letter to Sihanouk calling him the "strangler of infant democracy"
Pol Pot, Hou Yuon, Ieng Sary, and other leftists gained notoriety by sending an open letter to Sihanouk calling him the "strangler of infant democracy"
Pol Pot, Hou Yuon, Ieng Sary, and other leftists gained notoriety by sending an open letter to Sihanouk calling him the "strangler of infant democracy"
After Kampuchean independence following the 1954 Geneva Conference, right and left wing parties struggled against each other for power in the new Government
During the mid-1950s, two KPRP factions, the "urban committee" (headed by Tou Samouth), and the "rural committee" (headed by Sieu Heng), emerged. In very general terms, these groups espoused divergent revolutionary lines
The KCP wins about 4% of the electoral vote but does not secure a seat in the legislature
During the mid-1950s, two KPRP factions, the "urban committee" (headed by Tou Samouth), and the "rural committee" (headed by Sieu Heng), emerged. In very general terms, these groups espoused divergent revolutionary lines
The central role of the peasants in national development was espoused by Hou Yuon in his 1955 thesis, "The Kampuchean Peasants and Their Prospects for Modernization"
Hou Yuon and Khieu Samphan help establish a new group, the Khmer Students Union,inside, the group was still run by the Cercle Marxiste
Hou Yuon and Khieu Samphan help establish a new group, the Khmer Students Union,inside, the group was still run by the Cercle Marxiste
The major argument in Khieu Samphans 1959 thesis, Kampucheas Economy and Industrial Development, was that the country had to become self-reliant and end its economic dependency on the developed world. Khieu Samphan returned from Paris in 1959, taught as a member of the law faculty of the University of Phnom Penh, and started a left-wing, French-language publication, LObservateur
When Ton Samouth was murdered, Pol Pot becomes the acting leader of the communist party. Government attacks prevent the KCP from participating in the 1962 election and drove it underground
When Ton Samouth was murdered, Pol Pot becomes the acting leader of the communist party. The underground communist party secretary Tou Samouth is arrested and later killed while in custody
Pol Pot and most of the central committee left Phnom Penh to establish an insurgent base in Ratanakiri Province
Pol Pot and most of the central committee left Phnom Penh to establish an insurgent base in Ratanakiri Province. At the WPKs second congress, Pol Pot is chosen to succeed Tou Samouth as the party's general secretary
Convinces the Vietnamese to help the Kampuchean Communists set up their own base camp, the central committee of the party met later that year and issued a declaration calling for armed struggle.
The Party declaration also emphasized the idea of "self-reliance" in the sense of extreme Kampuchean nationalism, in the border camps, the ideology of the Khmer Rouge was gradually developed.
The party, breaking with Marxism, declared rural peasant farmers to be the true working class proletarian and the lifeblood of the revolution.
Goes to North Vietnam to gain approval for an uprising in Kampuchea against the Government. North Vietnam refused to support any uprising because of agreements being negotiated with the Kampuchean Government. After another wave of repression by Sihanouk in 1965, the Khmer Rouge movement under Saloth grew at a rapid rate, many teachers and students left the cities for the countryside to join the movement
The Khmer Rouge launches a national insurgency across Kampuchea
The political appeal of the Khmer Rouge was increased as a result of the situation created by the removal of Sihanouk as head of state in 1970. Sihanouk, in exile in Beijing, makes an alliance with the Kampuchean Communist Party and becomes the nominal head of a Khmer Rouge-dominated Government-in-exile
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
The CPK is divided into two, with the Pen Sovan-led group constituting a separate party
The CPK is divided into two, with the Pen Sovan-led group constituting a separate party
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