Profile: Heng Samrin

Positions that Heng Samrin has held:

  • President of Cambodia (1981-1991)

Heng Samrin was a participant or observer in the following events:

December 1978-1979: Vietnam Arms Cambodian Exiles, Who Attack Cambodia

Responding to repeated armed incursions by Cambodian forces into its border villages, Soviet-allied Vietnam forms the Kampuchean National United Front for National Salvation (KNUFNS) made up of communist and noncommunist Cambodian exiles. The KNUFNS invades Cambodia in 1979 and seizes the capital city of Phnom Penh, forcing the Khmer Rouge to flee to the jungles along the Thai border. Heng Samrin becomes Cambodia’s new president. [Library of Congress, 1990; Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2005]

Entity Tags: Pol Pot (Saloth Sar), Heng Samrin

Timeline Tags: US-Cambodia (1955-1993)

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