Years of the 20th Century in Cambodia - 1955 in Cambodia, 1956 in Cambodia, 1964 in Cambodia, 1967 in Cambodia, 1970 in Cambodia (Paperback)

Chapters: 1955 in Cambodia, 1956 in Cambodia, 1964 in Cambodia, 1967 in Cambodia, 1970 in Cambodia, 1971 in Cambodia, 1972 in Cambodia, 1973 in Cambodia, 1974 in Cambodia, 1975 in Cambodia, 1978 in Cambodia, 1996 in Cambodia, 2000 in Cambodia, Mayaguez Incident, Cambodian Campaign, Khmer Republic, Operation Eagle Pull, Cambodian Coup of 1970, Operation Freedom Deal, Samlaut Uprising, Operation Chenla Ii, Operation Patio, Cambodian Parliamentary Election, 1955, Battle of Kampot, United Nations Security Council Resolution 109, United Nations Security Council Resolution 189, Battle of Kompong Speu, Cambodia at the 1972 Summer Olympics, Cambodia at the 1956 Summer Olympics, Battle of Prey Veng, Cambodia at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Ba Chuc Massacre, Cambodian League 2000, Cambodia at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Cambodia at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The first parliamentary elections in Cambodia were held in 1955. The elections were held following the peace established at the 1954 Geneva Conference and the independence of the country. The election were postponed to September 1955. Participating parties Official results Party: Votes: %: Seats Accusations of fraud Afterwards, accusations of massive electoral fraud arose. Kiernan (1985) notes that there were constituencies where the communists were judged to have strong popular support in which the Pracheachon candidates didn't obtain a single vote. In Memot, where communist guerrillas had been strong during the war and where there was a strong leftist following amongst rubber plantation workers, official figures gave 6149 votes for Sangkum, 99 for the Democrats and 0 votes for the Pracheachon candidate Sok Saphai. Sihanouk himself implicitly admitted the fraud in a 1958 publication. He mentions 39 distr...