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The Cambodian People's Party (Cambodian: Kanakpak Pracheachon Kâmpuchéa, KPK) is the ruling party of Cambodia. It has an outright majority in the National Assembly of Cambodia, but governs in coalition with the royalist Funcinpec party. The current (as of 2006) Prime Minister, Hun Sen, belongs to the party. A number of opposition parties have been formed in an attempt to combat corruption in the CPP and Funcinpec parties, however most of their attempts to gain significant power have been squashed by the ruling parties. This is a complete list of Kings of Cambodia 6th century: Bhavavarman I 6th century: Mahendravarman 7th century: Isanavarman I 7th century: Bhavavarman II 7th century: Jayavarman I 8th century: Queen Jayavedi REIGN UNKNOWN: Sambhuvarman REIGN UNKNOWN: Pushkaraksha 8th century: Sambhuvarman 8th century: Rajendravarman I REIGN UNKNOWN: Mahipativarman 802-850... Time in office: Since October 14, 2004 Predecessor: Norodom Sihanouk Date of Birth: May 14, 1953 Place of Birth: Phnom Penh His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia (Khmer: Mul script ; regular script , pronounced ) is the King of Cambodia, the son of King Father Norodom Sihanouk and Queen Mother Monineath. ... This is a list of prime ministers of Cambodia. ... Sâmdech (Lord) Hun Sen, (born April 4, 1951) is the Prime Minister of Cambodia and is married to Bun Rany. ... Parliament has two chambers. ... The Senate (Sénat) is one of the chambers of Parliament. ... Parliament has two chambers. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections. ... Funcinpec is a royalist Cambodian political party. ... The Sam Rainsy Party (Pak Sam Rainsy or Kanakpak Som Raeangsee) is a personalist and more or less liberal party in Cambodia. ... Politics of Cambodia Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Cambodia ... Cambodia is subdivided into 20 provinces (ខេត្ត = khet) and 4 province-level municipalities (ក្រុង = krong). ... The Human Rights situation in Cambodia is facing growing criticisms both within the country and an increasingly alarmed international community. ... The RCG has established diplomatic relations with most countries, including the United States. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Parliament has two chambers. ... Funcinpec is a royalist Cambodian political party. ... Sâmdech (Lord) Hun Sen, (born April 4, 1951) is the Prime Minister of Cambodia and is married to Bun Rany. ...

Early Beginnings

The KPRP began as an offshoot of the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP), which played a dominant role in Cambodian resistance against the French and the Japanese. Son Ngoc Minh and Tou Samouth, leaders of the anticolonial Cambodian resistance, or Khmer Issarak, had been members of the ICP and founded the KPRP in August 1951. The party was formed after the decision by the ICP's Second Party Congress in February 1951 to dissolve itself and to establish three independent parties for Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. On September 30, 1960, the KPRP party was renamed the Workers' Party of Kampuchea (WPK). Pol Pot emerged as the key figure. In 1966 shortly after Pol Pot returned from talks with Chinese leaders in Beijing, the party's name was changed to the Khmer Communist Party. Son Ngoc Minh on a 1985 Cambodian Postage Stamp Son Ngoc Minh (1920 - 1972) was a Cambodian politician whos first notable career achievement was in 1950 when he was appointed the head of provision revolutionary governmnet of the Khmer National United Front organized at Hongdan. ...

The KPRP began as a firmly Marxism-Leninism party, although it took on a more reformist outlook in the mid-1980s when some members pointed out problems with collectivization and concluded that private property should play a role in Cambodian society. Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ... Collective farming is an organizational unit in agriculture in which peasants are not paid wages, but rather receive a share of the farms net output. ...

Coming to Power

The Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) was the sole ruling party in Cambodia from 1979 to 1991, when it was renamed the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) during a UN-sponsored peace and reconciliation process. It came to power following the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978, which toppled the murderous Democratic Kampuchea regime of the Khmer Rouge and established the People's Republic of Kampuchea. Supported by some 200,000 Vietnamese forces, it was forced to deal with a renewed insurgency from the toppled Khmer Rouge and, to a lesser degree, armed rebellion from the royalist Funcinpec and the republican Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF.) The three groups, while possessing sharply different ideologies, appealed to Khmer nationalism by accusing the new government of being a Hanoi puppet. This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Kampuchea (Cambodia) Located on the Indochinese peninsula in Southeast Asia , Kampuchea has emerged from 2 decades (10 years) of civil war & invasion from V- ietnam. ... Flag of the Khmer Rouge The Khmer Rouge (Khmer: ) was the extremist-Maoist organization that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. ... After the fall of Democratic Kampuchea, Cambodia was under Vietnamese occupation and in a civil war during the 1980s. ... Funcinpec is a royalist Cambodian political party. ... The Khmer Peoples National Liberation Front (KPNLF) was a political front organized in 1979 in opposition to the Vietnamese-installed Peoples Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) regime in Cambodia. ... Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Nội), estimated population 3,083,800 (2004), is the capital of Vietnam. ...

Many members of the KPRP were former Khmer Rouge members who had fled to Vietnam after witnessing the wholesale destruction of Cambodian society as a result of the regime's radical Maoist and xenophobic policies. Several, including prominent leaders Heng Samrin and Hun Sen, were "Eastern Zone" Khmer Rouge cadres near the Cambodian-Vietnamese border who participated in the Vietnamese invasion that toppled the Khmer Rouge. Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought (Chinese: 毛泽东思想, pinyin: Máo Zédōng SÄ«xiÇŽng), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of the Chinese communist Mao Zedong. ... Sâmdech (i. ... Sâmdech (Lord) Hun Sen, (born April 4, 1951) is the Prime Minister of Cambodia and is married to Bun Rany. ...

External links

• Information on KPRP rule