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Military Reform – 1993

After the May 1993 election, the new Army brought together forces previously under the control of former Prime Minister Hun Sen (i.e., the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP)), the National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia (FUNCINPEC), and the Khmer People’s National Liberation Front (KPNLF). The Khmer Rouge fighters were not part of the new armed force, which started offensive attacks against the Khmers.¹ The army remained unreformed and military brutality continued in secret military camps.

1. “Cambodia’s Army, Now Unified, Attacks Recalcitrant Khmer Rouge,” Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA), August 26, 1993.