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unusual facts about Kampong Cham


Cambodian Marine Corps

The BFMs were autonomous light infantry units that often operated independently from each other, though two or more companies from different battalions could be assembled to form temporary combat task-forces in amphibious assault operations, such as during the battles of Kampong Cham and Oudong.


Clear Path International

In 2001 CPI established a vocational skills training program for landmine survivors in Kampong Cham, Cambodia.

Hun Sen

Hun Sen was born in Kampong Cham, and was the third child of six children to a peasant family.

Ke Pauk

Pauk joined the nascent Cambodian Communist movement in Svay Teab, Chamkar Leu District, Kampong Cham.


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Hou Yuon

In one version, related by a CPK cadre from Kampong Cham, Yuon was said to have been shot in August 1975 by a group of Khmer Rouge soldiers after he sympathetically addressed a group of evacuees at Prek Por, Srey Santhor District, and his body thrown into the Mekong.

Kampong Cham Province

The 10 districts that remain in Khampong Cham province overwhelmingly voted for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, led by Sam Rainsy, while five of the six districts cut out from Kampong Cham to form Tbong Khmum Province were won solidly by the CPP.