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Mondulkiri, 1992: the end of the armed struggle
In October 1992 a United Nations patrol in eastern Cambodia found several hundred armed men, with their wives and their children, still fighting a war that had ended seventeen years earlier. They had not been told their leader was dead. They gave up their weapons, asked for asylum, and the Dega armed struggle ended after twenty-eight years and t...
FULRO, 1964–1992
On 20 September 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 Unit...
The Cambodian camps, 2001–2005
Between 2001 and 2005 the nearest country stopped being a refuge and became a holding area. Thousands crossed into Cambodia after the February 2001 crackdown; UNHCR opened sites in the border provinces; the sites were closed, protection officers were confined to Phnom Penh, and people were sent back. This is how that happened, in order.
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