On March 18, 1970, Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, Prince Sihanouk’s cousin, and General Lon Nol, the self-proclaimed President of a newly created Khmer Republic, with the tacit support of the …
A month after the coup on March 18, 1970, President Richard Nixon of the United States of America decided to invade Cambodia and begin carpet bombing along the Cambodian border …