Cambodian literature
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Cambodian literature, also Khmer literature, has a very ancient origin. Like most Southeast Asian national literatures its traditional corpus has two distinct aspects or levels:
A scene of the Mahabharata in an Angkor Wat stone relief: Two asuras, the brothers Sunda and Upasunda, fight over the possession of the beautiful apsara Tilottama. Some ancient Cambodian local legends were influenced by the Hindu epics.
An illustration from the Vorvong and Sorvong tale. Khmer 19th century drawing.
The People's Republic of Kampuchea was a partially recognised state in Southeast Asia which existed from 1979 to 1989. It was a satellite state of Vietnam, founded in Cambodia by the Vietnamese-backed
PRK students Meak Chanthan and Dima Yim (3rd from left and standing) in Bernau, East Germany in 1986.
Mountains along the Cambodian-Thai Border north of the road between Sisophon and Aranyaprathet. One of the areas where Khmer Rouge insurgents hid at the time of the K5 Plan.
Aid to Kampuchea in Zella-Mehlis, East Germany, during the 1979/1980 famine that ravaged Cambodia right after the birth of the PRK.