People's Republic of Kampuchea 1979-1993

Kampuchea (PRK) was founded after the overthrow of Democratic Kampuchea, the khmer Rouge government. Brought about by an invasion from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which routed the Khmer Rouge armies, it had Vietnam and the Soviet Union as its main allies. Although it enjoyed very limited international recognition and failed to secure United Nations endorsement due to the diplomatic intervention of China, the United Kingdom, and the United States (among a host of other countries in their wake) on behalf of the ousted Pol Pot regime, the PRK was the de facto government of Cambodia between 1979 and 1993.

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