Khmer Bleu

#REDIRECT [[Sangkum]]

#REDIRECT [[Sangkum]]

The '''Khmer Bleu (Blue Khmers)''' ([[Khmer language|Khmer]]: ខៀវខ្មែរ) was the term coined by [[List of heads of state of Cambodia|Cambodian Head of State]] Prince [[Norodom Sihanouk]] to describe his [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] political opponents during the [[Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970)|Sangkum]] and [[Khmer Republic]] eras. Some key figures in the group was [[Prime Minister of Cambodia|Prime Minister]] [[Lon Nol]], [[Sisowath Sirik Matak]], [[Cheng Heng]], [[Lon Non]], and [[Son Ngoc Thanh]]. This group carried out an attempted [[coup d'état]], with [[Thailand|Thai]], [[United States|American]] and [[South Vietnamese]] backing, against Sihanouk [[Bangkok Plot|in the late 1950's]], claiming he was supporting the "communization" of Cambodia. Several members ([[Sam Sary]] and [[Dap Chhuon]]) were subsequently targeted by Sihanouk's secret police. The Khmer Bleu strongly opposed the [[Pracheachon]] and [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]] (who were later coined [[Khmer Rouge|"Khmer Rouge"]]). They eventually carried out the [[1970 Cambodian coup d'état]], and established the [[Khmer Republic]]. The Khmer Bleu-dominated government eventually [[Fall of Phnom Penh|lost]] to the Khmer Rouge in 1975, and several members or Cambodians associated with the group were either [[Cambodian genocide|rounded up and executed]] by the [[Democratic Kampuchea|new totalitarianist government the Khmer Rouge set up]], or fled to Western countries (France, United States, etc). Many Cambodians who supported the Khmer Bleu would later join the [[Khmer People's National Liberation Front]] of former Prime Minister [[Son Sann]] in the 1980's during the [[Third Indochina War]].

{{Infobox militant organization

| name = Khmer Bleu

| native_name = ខៀវខ្មែរ

| logo = Flag of the Khmer Republic.svg

| leaders = {{plainlist|

* [[Lon Nol]]

* [[Son Ngoc Thanh]]

* [[Sisowath Sirik Matak]]{{executed}}

* [[Lon Non]]{{executed}}

* [[Lon Nil]] {{KIA}}

* [[Sam Sary]]{{executed}}

* [[Dap Chhuon]]{{executed}}

* [[Sak Sutsakhan]]

* [[Chhan Sokhom]]{{executed}}

* [[In Tam]]

* [[Long Boret]]{{Executed}}

* [[Norodom Chantaraingsey]]{{KIA}}

<hr>[[Son Sann]]

}}

| dates = 1946 – 1975

* 1946–1970 ([[Khmer Serei|factions]])

* [[1970 Cambodian coup d'état|1970]]–[[Fall of Phnom Penh|1975]] ([[Khmer Republic|government]])

{{plainlist|1978 – 1990's}}

* [[Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia|1978]]–[[Cambodian conflict|1992]] ([[KPNLF|insurgency]])

| country = {{flag|Kingdom of Cambodia}}

| allegiance = {{flag|Khmer Republic}} (1970-1975)

| motives = * Remove Norodom Sihanouk as Cambodian Head of State

* Align Cambodia with the United States against communism in the Vietnam War

* Destroy the Khmer Rouge and Khmer Rumdo guerillas

* Remove Vietnamese influence from Cambodia

| ideology = {{plainlist|

* [[Khmer nationalism]]

* [[Anti-communism]]

* Anti-[[Sihanouk]]

* Anti-[[Pol Pot]]

* [[Anti-Vietnamese sentiment#Cambodia|Anti-Vietnamese sentiment]]

* [[Anti-monarchism]]

* [[Republicanism]]

* [[Ethnonationalism|Khmer ethnonationalism]]

* [[Conservatism]]

* [[Pro-Americanism]]

}}

| position = [[Right-wing politics|Right-wing]]

| partof = {{plainlist|

'''[[First Indochina War]]''':

* [[French protectorate of Cambodia| Kingdom of Cambodia]]

* • [[Khmer Renovation Party]]

}}

{{plainlist|

'''[[Second Indochina War]]''':

* [[First Kingdom of Cambodia]]

* • [[Sangkum]] ''(right-wing faction)''

* • [[Khmer Serei]]

* [[Khmer Republic]]

* • [[Khmer Serei]]

* • Khmer Sa

* • [[Republican Party (Cambodia)|Republican Party]]

* • [[Social Republican Party]]

}}

{{plainlist|

'''[[Third Indochina War]]''':

* [[Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea]]

* • [[Khmer People's National Liberation Front]]

}}

| allies = {{plainlist|

'''First and Second Indochina Wars''':

* {{flag|United States}}

* {{flag|South Vietnam}}

* {{flag|Thailand}}

* {{flag|Republic of China}}

* {{flag|South Korea}}

* {{flagdeco|Indonesia}} [[New Order (Indonesia)|Indonesia]]

* {{flag|France}}

* {{flag|Australia}}

* {{flag|New Zealand}}

* [[File:Flag of FULRO.svg|23px|border]] [[FULRO]]

* {{flag|Kingdom of Laos|Laos}}

}}

{{plainlist|

'''Third Indochina War''':

* {{flag|United States}}

* {{flagdeco|Democratic Kampuchea}} [[Khmer Rouge]]

* {{flagdeco|Cambodia}} [[FUNCINPEC]]

* {{flag|Thailand}}

* {{flagdeco|Indonesia}} [[New Order (Indonesia)|Indonesia]]

* {{flag|France}}

* {{flag|People's Republic of China}}

* {{flag|Australia}}

* {{flag|Canada}}

* {{flag|New Zealand}}

* {{flag|United Kingdom}}

* [[File:Flag of FULRO.svg|23px|border]] [[FULRO]]

* {{flagdeco|Laos|1952}} [[Royal Lao Government in Exile|Laotian royalists]]

}}

| opponents = {{plainlist|

'''First Indochina War''':

* {{flagdeco|North Vietnam}} [[Viet Minh]]

* {{flagdeco|Laos}} [[Lao Issara]]

* {{flagdeco|People's Republic of Kampuchea}} [[Khmer Issarak]]

* {{flag|Soviet Union}}

* {{flag|People's Republic of China}}

}}

{{plainlist|

'''Second Indochina War''':

* {{flagdeco|Democratic Kampuchea}} [[Khmer Rouge]]

* {{flagdeco|Cambodia}} [[GRUNK]]

* {{flagdeco|Cambodia}} [[Khmer Rumdo]]

* [[Communist Party of Thailand]]

* {{flag|People's Republic of China}}

* {{flag|North Korea}}

* {{flag|North Vietnam}}

* {{flag|Romania|1948}}

* {{flagdeco|Laos}} [[Pathet Lao]]

* {{flagdeco|Republic of South Vietnam}} [[Viet Cong]]

}}

{{plainlist|

'''Third Indochina War''':

* {{flag|Vietnam}}

* {{flag|Soviet Union}}

* {{flag|People's Republic of Kampuchea}}

* {{flag|Polish People's Republic|name=Poland}}

* {{flag|Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|name=Czechoslovakia}}

* {{flag|Hungarian People's Republic|name=Hungary}}

* {{flag|People's Republic of Bulgaria|name=Bulgaria}}

* {{flag|Albania|1946}}

* {{flag|Cuba}}

* {{flag|Mongolia|1945}}

* {{flag|East Germany}}

* {{flag|Laos}}

}}

| battles = {{plainlist|

* [[First Indochina War]]

* [[Second Indochina War]]

* • [[Cambodian Civil War]]

* [[Third Indochina War]]

* • [[Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia]]

* • [[Cambodian conflict (1979–1998)|Cambodian conflict]]

}}

}}