Life in a small riverside town, Kampot, by the Gulf of Thailand in the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Friday, January 05, 2007
Cambodia 1965
This is an interesting look at what Cambodia was like before the "troubles". Bear in mind that in 1968, Nixon began his secret bombing campaign and in 1970 Lon Nol overthrew King Sihanouk in a bloody coup that led to civilwar, culminating in the Pol Pot regime in 1975 which was overthrown in turn by the vietnamese invasion in 1978, which then led to another civil war that lasted until 1999. In 1965 Cambodia was the richest nation in South East Asia.
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