Khmer People's National Liberation Front

Khmer People's National Liberation Front
រណសិរ្សរំដោះជាតិប្រជាជនខ្មែរ
PresidentSon Sann
FounderSon Sann
Founded9 October 1979
Dissolved1993
Succeeded byBLDP
Military WingKPNLAF
IdeologyKhmer nationalism
Buddhist socialism
Economic liberalism
Anti-communism
Political positionRight-wing
National affiliationCGDK
Party flag
Border camps hostile to the PRK; 1979–1984. KPNLF camps shown in black.

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.