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LObservateur

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

2Records
1959–1960Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1959

Khieu Samphan1959

Politics / Communist Party

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

1960

Khieu Samphan1960

Politics / Communist Party

The Government closes the paper, and Sihanouks police publicly humiliate Khieu by beating, undressing and photographing him in public

Names involved

Khieu Samphan

Provenance

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