The Provisional Government of National Union and National Salvation of Cambodia (PGNUNSC) was an internationally unrecognised and ostensibly provisional government set up by the Khmer Rougehttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/08/05/Khmer-Rouge-claim-booby-trap-success/6054776059200/ on July 11, 1994,United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Daily report: East Asia. Index, Volume 16, Part 2. NewsBank. 1996. p. 456. in opposition to the established Kingdom of Cambodia.
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PGNUNSC's Prime Minister was Khieu Samphan (who was also head of the armed forces) and its Deputy Prime Minister (in charge also of foreign affairs) was Son Sen. It was staffed by members of the Cambodian National Unity Party. Areas it controlled included Pailin (the capital of the provisional government) and Preah Vihear (where it was based.Alan John Day. Political Parties of the World. 1996. p. 110.) The Khmer Rouge radio station was also known as the "Radio of the Provisional Government of National Union and National Salvation of Cambodia."Human Rights Watch. Cambodia At War. 1995. p. 25. Other ministers included Chan Youran, Mak Ben, In Sopheap, Kor Bun Heng, Pich Cheang and Chuon Choeun.International Federation of Social Science Organizations. Transition Regimes: Political and Socio-Economic Transformations. 1998. p. 157.
In August 1996 senior Khmer Rouge official Ieng Sary defected from the Khmer Rouge regime with two armed divisions and the formation of his own party, the Democratic National Union Movement, which in turn encouraged more defections from the regime as Pol Pot ordered the assassinations of Son Sen (successful) and Ta Mok (failed)Donald F. Busky. Communism in History and Theory: Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. 2002. p. 38. In mid-June 1997 Khieu Samphan (who had by now founded the Khmer National Solidarity Party) denounced Pol Pot and began discussing demobilization and a return to civilian life.Far East and Australasia 2003. 2002. p. 236.
With Pol Pot's death in April 1998 and widespread sentiment within the Khmer Rouge for an end to an almost 20-year conflict. After Pol Pot's death Khmer Rouge members defected and are offering land in areas under their control to returnees and displaced persons - so-called reconciliation zones - in exchange for development aid and funding to clear mines.https://www.unhcr.org/publications/refugees-magazine-issue-112-going-home-mozambique-revisited-cambodia-killing-fields Khieu Samphan and Ta Mok dissolved the provisional government on June 22, 1998, basically ending the Khmer Rouge regime.Sucheng Chan. Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2004. p. 255.
See also Liberated Area of Cambodia
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