Khmer People's National Liberation Front រណសិរ្សរំដោះជាតិប្រជាជនខ្មែរ | |
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| President | Son Sann |
| Founder | Son Sann |
| Founded | 9 October 1979 |
| Dissolved | 1993 |
| Succeeded by | BLDP |
| Military Wing | KPNLAF |
| Ideology | Khmer nationalism Buddhist socialism Economic liberalism Anti-communism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| National affiliation | CGDK |
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The Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF, Khmer: រណសិរ្សរំដោះជាតិប្រជាជនខ្មែរ) was a political front organized in 1979 in opposition to the Vietnamese-installed People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) regime in Cambodia. The 200,000 Vietnamese troops supporting the PRK, as well as Khmer Rouge defectors, had ousted the Democratic Kampuchea regime of Pol Pot, and were initially welcomed by the majority of Cambodians as liberators. Some Khmer, though, recalled the two countries' historical rivalry and feared that the Vietnamese would attempt to subjugate the country, and began to oppose their military presence. Members of the KPNLF supported this view.