Khmer Republic

noun

1. the former official name (1970–76) of Cambodia

Example Sentences

Embassy in Cambodia during the dying days of the Khmer Republic.

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Embassy in Cambodia during the dying days of the Khmer Republic, has died.

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Embassy in Cambodia during the dying days of the Khmer Republic has died.

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The surrender of the Khmer Republic to the Khmer Rouge was, the magazine noted, the first time a capital city had fallen to Communist forces since Seoul in the early 1950s.

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At the time of the evacuations, the U.S.-backed Khmer Republic had all but crumbled under the weight of incompetence and corruption, while large-scale American bombing of the countryside sent hundreds of thousands fleeing to Phnom Penh for safety.

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