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FULRO, 1964–1992
On September 20, 1964, five armed camps in Darlac rose at once, and a movement was announced: the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races. It lasted twenty-eight years and three weeks, longer than the war that produced it, and ended in October 1992 when its last fighters walked out of the Cambodian forest and handed their rifles to Un...
The men of FULRO
FULRO is usually told as the story of one man, Y Bhăm Êñuôl. It was never only his. This page records the others we can name — commanders, interpreters, rivals and the men who were still in the forest in 1992 — with what the published record says about each, and where that record is uncertain.
Y Bham Enuol: Phnom Penh, the captivity and the death
At the end of 1968, days before he was to sign a settlement with Saigon, FULRO men and Cambodian officers took his headquarters and moved him to Phnom Penh. He was held there for six years, still called president by the fighters in the forest and still signing papers for them. On April 20, 1975 he walked out of the French Embassy at the head of...
Kok Ksor
A Jarai from Cheo Reo who joined BAJARAKA as a schoolboy, served FULRO as its chief of staff, and spent the second half of his life in South Carolina making the case for our people at the United Nations and in the parliaments of Europe. For three decades Kok Ksor was the Dega most foreign governments had heard of, and the one Vietnam most often...
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