Powersharing Transitional Government – 1997

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Powersharing Transitional Government – 1997

1997

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Power-sharing between FUNCINPEC and the CPP collapsed during the July 7, 1997 coup. Hun Sen, the leader of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), overthrew Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh in a brutal, bloody coup.1 This formally brought about the termination of the power-sharing deals, which had extended beyond 1993 — the year when the Constituent Assembly restored the monarch and UNTAC concluded its mission in Cambodia.

  1. “Butchers on a Smaller Scale: Hun Sen and the Cambodian People’s Party,” accessed July 19, 2010, http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/hun_sen1.htm.