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• History (Cambodia)

  Almost Forgotten: Cambodia’s Anti-Colonial Nationalists

  12 October 2018, by TAING Rinith

  Today, Con Dao prison in southern Vietnam is a museum dedicated to the Vietnamese who fought for independence from the French. But Cambodian nationalists were also locked up in that brutal space, and their story has been largely overlooked over the years.
  It was a windy evening in February (...)

• History (Cambodia)

  1975: The Mayaguez affair – US troops invade a Cambodian island

  1995, by ZINN Howard

  Historian Howard Zinn’s account of the brief but disatrous invasion of a Cambodian island by a small US force which suffered massive casualties. It was in response to Cambodia holding the crew of an American cargo ship, with the intention of re-asserting US military dominance in the wake of its (...)