Cambodian People's Party

The Cambodian People's Party ( Khmer Kampuchea Kanakpak Pracheachon or KPK, English Cambodian People's Party or CPP; French Parti populaire cambodgien or PPC), together with the FUNCINPEC coalition government in Cambodia and is the current Prime Minister Hun Sen.

History

The Kampucheanische People's Revolutionary Party (French Parti du peuple du Kampuchea revolutionnaire under the acronym PRPK ) was from 1979 to 1991 alone, the ruling party in Cambodia. While supported by the UN peace and reconstruction measures, they changed its name to Cambodian People's Party.

The party was, in consequence overthrown the dictatorial regime of the Khmer Rouge to power, and the People's Republic was installed by the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea after 1979. She was supported by Vietnamese troops. In the 1980s, they had to deal with the intra- Cambodian resistance resulting from the resurgent Khmer and - to a lesser extent - from the armed and political resistance of the royalist FUNCINPEC and the Republican National Khmer People's Liberation Front (Front populaire pour la libération nationale des Khmers or FPLNK ) composed. All three resistance movements appealed despite very different ideologies especially on the strong national feeling of the Khmer ethnic group by the government accused of being just a puppet of the Vietnamese.

Ideology

The KPK began as a purely Marxist- Leninist movement, but turned the mid-1980s in the course of the reform process more and more market-based ideas and anchored them in the Cambodian society by permitting private property again.

Many leaders of the KPK were formerly members of the Khmer Rouge, who had to flee from their murderous regime to Vietnam. Prominent leading party members like Heng Samrin and Hun Sen were among the cadres of the Khmer Rouge near the Cambodian- Vietnamese border and participated in the Vietnamese invasion.