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.
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
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The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was an armed conflict from 1978 to 1989 between Democratic Kampuchea and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and their respective allies. It began in December 1978, with a
The emblem of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation
Skulls of victims of the Ba Chúc Massacre
A Soviet ship with humanitarian aid, Sihanoukville, Cambodia, November 1979