United Issarak Front

United Issarak Front
Samakhum Khmer Issarak
PresidentSon Ngoc Minh
Vice-PresidentChan Samay
Vice-PresidentTou Samouth
Founded1950
Dissolved1954
HeadquartersEastern Cambodia
NewspaperIssarak
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism
Khmer nationalism

The United Issarak Front (UIF) (in Khmer: សមាគមខ្មែរឥស្សរៈ, Samakhum Khmer Issarak, lit. 'Khmer Issarak Front') was a Cambodian anti-colonial movement 1950–1954,[2] organized by the left-wing members of the Khmer Issarak movement. The UIF coordinated the efforts of the movement as of 1950, and waged war against the French Union forces. At the time of the Geneva Peace Conference in 1954, it is estimated that UIF controlled about half of the Cambodian territory.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference two was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Kiernan, Ben. How Pol Pot Came to Power. London: Verso, 1985. p. iv
  3. ^ Cambodia - The Cambodian Left: The Early Phases