Cambodia has been through a lot of political regimes during the 20th century. As a consequence, they have also been through a lot of flags, before finally adopting the current one, 30 years ago today.

MonkderZweite, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

So they tried democracy, it didn’t work out and back to Kingdom of Kambodia?

jmcs, 9 months ago

The pre-1992 government was about as democratic as North Korea.

MonkderZweite, 9 months ago

So it failed in the government already or they never tried, just trolling?

Stamau123, 9 months ago

Did a little trolling, then Pol Pot decided to be a real troll meister

Drewfro66, 9 months ago

No, not really.

The Khmer Republic was a military dictatorship formed by a coup. For reference, this was the government that gave the U.S. permission to bomb Viet Cong troops within Cambodia (also resulting in the deaths of tens or hundreds of thousands of Cambodian civilians).

Democratic Kampuchea was Pol Pot’s government, with the killing fields and the wholesale murder of intellectuals.

Finally, the People’s Republic of Kampuchea was the government established by the Vietnamese Communists after an occupation, and the first time Cambodia could really be said to be Democratic.

After the People’s Republic fell, Cambodia is now a Constitutional Monarchy; obviously not perfect, but closer to a Great Britain than a Saudi Arabia.