Khmer National Liberation Committee

Khmer National Liberation Committee
Kana Kamathikar Khmer Sang Cheat
President (1948-9)Dap Chhuon
President (1949-53)Leav Keo Moni
Supreme Army Chief (1949-52)Prince Norodom Chantaraingsey
Founded1948
Dissolved1953-4
Merged intoUnited Issarak Front
HeadquartersNorth-western Cambodia
NewspaperL'Indépendence, Ekareach
IdeologyKhmer nationalism

The Khmer People's Liberation Committee (in Khmer language: Kana Cheat Mouta Keaha Mocchim Nokor Khmer, French: Comité de libération du peuple khmer) was a Cambodian anticolonial movement, formed by Khmer Issarak elements on 1 February 1948. It was later renamed the Khmer National Liberation Committee.

The Liberation Committee was an attempt to coordinate the efforts of the existing Issarak armed bands, some of which were sponsored by Thailand, some of which were leftist, and others of which were little more than bandit groups, to fight French colonial forces.

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