1978 in Cambodia

← 1977 1976 1975 1978 in Cambodia → 1979 1980 1981
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
See also:	Other events of 1978 List of years in Cambodia

The following lists events that happened during 1978 in Cambodia .

Incumbents

• Chairman of the State Presidium: Khieu Samphan
• General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea: Pol Pot

Events

January

• January 6 - Cambodia had made up of four classes: peasants, proletariat, bourgeoisie, and feudalists with Post-revolutionary society, as defined by the 1976 constitution of Democratic Kampuchea, consisted of workers, peasants, and "all other Kampuchean working people" under the leadership of Angkar which divided them as "Old People" from rural areas and "New People" from urban centers like New Democracy by the Chinese Communist Party in which "patriotic" landlord or bourgeois elements were permitted to play a role in socialist construction like Pol Pot who lived in Paris as a student to join the French Communist Party along with Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) before him but prefers the study of Robespierre's Reign of Terror.^{[ citation needed ]}

April

• April 17 - The third anniversary of the Fall of Phnom Penh to the communist organization of Angkar by the Khmer Rouge ('Cambodian Reds') from the United States-backed Khmer Republic of Lon Nol who had fled to exile in Hawaii and then in Fullerton, California while Pol Pot (Saloth Sâr) came to power as "His Majesty" King Sihanouk was deposed by placing under house arrest and heading to exile in overseas such as Pyongyang and Beijing, with the Constitution of 1976 had led the birth of Democratic Kampuchea isolating the country from all foreign influences including neighboring Vietnam, closing schools, hospitals, universities, government buildings, airports, and factories, abolishing all banking systems, finance and currency, with foreigners and westerners are banned to enter or return to Cambodia when it was introduced to the new emblem using rice fields and an irrigation canal with a weir and works in the distance and ears of rice tied with a red ribbon with the name of the country in golden Khmer script in baseby while the plain red flag with yellow three-towered monument similar to the Angkor Wat was adopted as the national flag meaning the traditions of the Cambodian people and their efforts to make the country more prosperous as well as the revolutionary struggle represented the nation's traditions and the people's defense and construction of the country reflecting communist ideologies and describes a new state as "a precious model for humanity" while Cambodian civilians including children, party members and leaders were forced to wear all the same black uniform clothing including red and white gingham krama is a traditional Cambodian scarf were prohibited from leaving the country and collectivising agriculture which divided regions into seven geographic zones such as the Northwest, the North, the Northeast, the East, the Southwest, the West, and the Centre, with these zones were derived from divisions established and its propensity for violence must be understood against this backdrop of war that likely played a contributing factor in hardening the population against such violence and simultaneously increasing their tolerance and hunger for it which later turned this radical understanding of society and violence onto their countrymen after "Angkar" had won scores of total victory for 1976 Cambodian general election by the Kampuchean People's Representative Assembly (KPRA) instead of provinces, Democratic Kampuchea was divided into geographic zones, with derived divisions from one zone were frequently sent to another zone to enforce discipline and uncompromising like any dissident or ideologically impure cadres gave rise to the purges that were to decimate Angkar ranks which became everyone's mother, father or god to undermine the morale of the victorious army, and to generate the seeds of rebellion has completely administered with strict discipline more than 25,000 Buddhist monks were massacred by Angkar's Khmer Rouge where all religious practices were banned which believed Buddhism was "a decadent affectation" as Angkar sought to eliminate Buddhism's 1,500-year-old mark on Cambodia, to form itself as Communist Indochina or Indochinese Federation, with the Committee decreed that the population would work ten day weeks with one day off from labor; a system modelled was used after the French Revolution which measures were taken to indoctrinate those living in the co-operatives with set phrases about hard work and loving Cambodia being widely employed, for instance broadcast via propaganda loudspeakers or on the radio, hoping and wanted to double or triple the country's population, hoping it could reach between 15 and 20 million within a decade, more people to do more work for Angkar, as the Khmer Rouge say "to keep you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss" which transformed Cambodia into a "slave state" as Democratic Kampuchea returned to the Dark Ages like Barom Reachea II who reigned as king of the Khmer Empire.^{[ citation needed ]}

December

• December 25 - Vietnam invaded Cambodia ^[1] which lead to the ouster of Pol Pot in the next year ^[2]

References

1. Khoo, Nicholas (2011). Collateral Damage: Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance. Columbia University Press. p. 127. ISBN   978-0-231-15078-1 . Retrieved 4 June 2025.
2. Benvenisti, Eyal (23 February 2012). The International Law of Occupation. OUP Oxford. ISBN   978-0-19-163957-9 . Retrieved 4 June 2025.