GRUNK
Sign in to saveThe Royal Government of National Union of Kampuchea (, GRUNK; ) was a government-in-exile of Cambodia, based in Beijing and Hong Kong, that was in existence between 1970 and 1976, and was briefly in control of the country starting from 1975.
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Royal Government of National Union of Kampuchea
- Country.common_name
- GRUNK
- Country.era
- Cold War
- Country.status
- Government-in-exile
- Country.event_pre
- March 1970 coup d'état
- Country.date_pre
- 18 March 1970
- Country.event_start
- Proclamation of GRUNK
- Country.date_start
- 5 May 1970
- Country.event_end
- Democratic Kampuchea
- Country.date_end
- 5 January 1976
- Country.life_span
- 1970–1976
- Country.event1
- Capture of Phnom Penh
- Country.date_event1
- 17 April 1975
- Country.flag_p1
- Flag of Cambodia.svg
- Country.p1
- Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970)Kingdom of Cambodia
- Country.flag_s1
- Flag of Democratic Kampuchea.svg
- Country.s1
- Democratic Kampuchea
- Country.image_flag
- Flag of Cambodia.svg
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7 sectionsContents
- Formation
- Composition
- Takeover by Khmer Rouge
- After the fall of Phnom Penh
- Events after the fall of Democratic Kampuchea
- See also
- References
The Royal Government of National Union of Kampuchea (, GRUNK; ) was a government-in-exile of Cambodia, based in Beijing and Hong Kong, that was in existence between 1970 and 1976, and was briefly in control of the country starting from 1975.
The GRUNK was based on a coalition (the FUNK, acronym for "National United Front of Kampuchea") between the supporters of exiled Head of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge ("Red Khmer", an appellation he had himself coined for the members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea). It was formed, with Chinese backing, shortly after Sihanouk had been deposed in the 1970 Cambodian coup d'état; the Khmer Rouge insurgents had until that point been fighting Sihanouk's Sangkum regime.