Kem Sokha

Kem Sokha, a prominent human rights advocate and politician, heads the Cambodia National Rescue Party. Since September 2017, he has been imprisoned for treason.

Sam Rainsy

Since the 1990s, Sam Rainsy, a banker who emerged as one of Cambodia’s best-known politicians and a pro-democracy activist, has been a sharp critic of Hun Sen’s government.

Norodom Ranariddh

Prince Norodom Ranariddh was a leading Cambodian political figure in the 1980s and 1990s. He is now the president of the royalist FUNCINPEC party, after having cycled in and out of politics for years.

Pol Pot

His Legacy of Brutality Haunts Cambodia

Lon Nol

U.S.-backed General Lon Nol led a coup that toppled King Norodom Sihanouk, before being forced out of the country by the Khmer Rouge in 1975.

Norodom Sihanouk

The late King Norodom Sihanouk was a powerful Cambodian figure for almost six decades after obtaining independence from France in 1953.