1979 in Cambodia

none November 20251979 The following lists events that happened during 1979 in Cambodia. Incumbents Chairman of the State Presidium: Khieu Samphan (until 7 January),Etcheson Craig After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide Praeger 2005 0-275-98513-X Westport, CT 125 Heng Samrin (starting 7 January)Binder David David Binder (journalist) 9 January 1979 New Cambodia Leaders Identified In Radio Broadcast From Vietnam https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/09/archives/new-cambodia-leaders-identified-in-radio-broadcast-from-vietnam.html 14 November 2025 The New York Times General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea: Pol Pot (until 7 January), vacant (starting 7 January) Events November 2025 January January 6 - Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who was placed under house arrest by the Khmer Rouge in 1976,Whiteman Hilary 5 February 2013 Tears, prayers as late Cambodian king cremated https://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/04/world/asia/cambodia-king-cremation 14 November 2025 CNN When the group, led by Pol Pot, won control of Cambodia in 1975, Sihanouk returned as head of state. But by the following year, he was placed under house arrest.22 January 1979 World: Norodom Sihanouk: A Once and Future Prince https://time.com/archive/6854011/world-norodom-sihanouk-a-once-and-future-prince/ 14 November 2025 Time Magazine For most of that time, Sihanouk had been kept under virtual house arrest in Phnom-Penh. is allowed to fly to China to evade Vietnamese troops advancing on Phnom Penh.Osborne Milton E. Sihanouk Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness University of Hawaii Press 1994 978-0-8248-1639-1 Honolulu, Hawaii 242 January 7 - The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) (led by Lê Duẩn) and moderate dissidents from the Khmer Rouge (led by Heng Samrin) advanced and captured the city of Phnom Penh. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge are pushed out of the capital and begin a guerrilla war in the forests near the Thai border.Pran Dith 1 January 1989 The World: A Reminiscence: The Killing Fields; Could the Vietnamese Withdrawal Bring Back Cambodia's Nightmare? https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/01/weekinreview/world-reminiscence-killing-fields-could-vietnamese-withdrawal-bring-back.html 14 November 2025 The New York Times A decade ago, Jan. 7, 1979, a group of moderate rebels in the Khmer Rouge, led by Heng Samrin and supported by Vietnamese troops, seized power in Phnom Penh.Crossette Barbara 7 December 1986 Pol Pot Mystery: Illness and Conflict https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/07/world/pol-pot-mystery-illness-and-conflict.html 14 November 2025 The New York Times January 8 -The Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the dissident rebels declare an end to Democratic Kampuchea, replacing it with the People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK), a Vietnamese puppet state.Pilger John 17 April 2000 How Thatcher gave Pol Pot a hand https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2000/04/how-thatcher-gave-pol-pot-a-hand 14 November 2025 New Statesman Although the Khmer Rouge government (“Democratic Kampuchea”) had ceased to exist in January 1979, its representatives were allowed to continue occupying Cambodia’s seat at the UN; Heng Samrin was installed as the head of the new PRK government.Rungswasdisab Puangthong Thailand's Response to the Cambodian Genocide https://macmillan.yale.edu/gsp/thailands-response-cambodian-genocide 14 November 2025 MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies Yale University The Hanoi-backed People’s Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) led by Heng Samrin was proclaimed on 8 January 1979.Heller H World and Its peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia 2007 9780761476313 Marshall Cavendish 6 765 Cambodia: Modern History Marshall Cavendish 2007060865 OL10904958M 14 November 2025 https://books.google.com/books?id=kte14XIoOCkC&pg=PA765 January 15 - The PAVN capture the city of Sisophon.Short Philip Philip Short Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare John Murray 2004 978-0719565694 London 405 March Unknown date - The Thai government closed and mined the border with Cambodia, fearing the entry of an overwhelming flow of refugees. Refugee camps begin to appear in no man's land along the Thai-Cambodian border.Kim Audrey U. https://books.google.com/books?id=X1OaAq6HD1wC&dq=dangrek+june+1979&pg=PA26 Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States University of Illinois Press 2003 978-0-252-07101-0 25 14 November 2025 June 8 June - Dangrek genocideHinton Alexander 2006 Khmerness and the Thai 'Other': Violence, Discourse and Symbolism in the 2003 Anti-Thai Riots in Cambodia https://www.jstor.org/stable/20071786 Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 37 3 445–468 10.1017/S0022463406000737 0022-4634 20071786 162779371 14 November 2025 - Up to 45,000 Cambodian migrants were forced back into Cambodia by the Royal Thai Army at Preah Vihear, with up to 10,000 being killed attempting to cross minefields and descending the Dângrêk Mountains.https://books.google.com/books?id=tcMQSO8fdDoC&dq=dangrek+june+1979&pg=PA25 Land Mines in Cambodia: The Coward's War, September 199 Human Rights Watch 1991 978-1-56432-001-8 14 November 2025 Physicians for Human RightsThompson Larry Clinton Refugee Workers in the Indochina Exodus, 1975-1982 MacFarland Publishing Company 2010 978-0786445295 Jefferson, NC 177–178 August Unknown date - UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross are granted permission by the Vietnamese and PRK governments to deliver aid to quell famine in Cambodia. September September 19 - The Credentials Committee of the United Nations (UN) votes 6-3 in favour of recommending that the Democratic Kampuchea delegation over the PRK delegation for Cambodia's seat.Lescaze Lee 19 September 1979 Pol Pot Wins First Round in U.N. Battle for Representation https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/09/20/pol-pot-wins-first-round-in-un-battle-for-representation/481843eb-e114-4009-9d26-3b1322dc9219/ 14 November 2025 The New York Times November November 14 - The United Nations General Assembly voted on Resolution 34/2A, recognising the credentials of the Democratic Kampuchea delegation.21 September 1979 Credentials of representatives to the 34th session of the General Assembly : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/632867 14 November 2025 United Nations Digital Library United Nations20 September 1979 First report of the Credentials Committee https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3108?ln=en&v=pdf 14 November 2025 United Nations Digital Library United Nations New York References 1979 in Category:1970s in Cambodia Category:Years of the 20th century in Cambodia Cambodia Cambodia