# MOULINAKA

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| name = Movement for the National Liberation of Kampuchea
| abbreviation       = MOULINAKA 
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| leader1_name    = Kong Sileah <small>(1979–1980)</small> <br> Nhem Sophon <br> Prum Neakareach <small>(1992-1998)</small>
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| dissolved = 1998
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| ideology        = [Anti-communism](/source/Anti-communism) <br> [Sihanoukism](/source/Sihanoukism)
| position        = [Right-wing](/source/Right-wing)
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| national        = [FUNCINPEC](/source/FUNCINPEC) (1981–1992)
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The '''MOULINAKA''' ({{langx|km|ម៉ូលីណាកា}}; '''Mouvement pour la Liberation Nationale du Kampuchea'''; '''Movement for the National Liberation of [Kampuchea](/source/Kampuchea)''') was a pro-[Sihanouk](/source/Norodom_Sihanouk) military organization formed in August 1979 by an armed group on the [Thai](/source/Thailand)-[Cambodia](/source/Cambodia)n border.

==History==

MOULINAKA was formed on August 31, 1979, by [Kong Sileah](/source/Kong_Sileah), a Naval Captain during the [Khmer Republic](/source/Khmer_Republic) who had been in [France](/source/France), after he refused General [Dien Del](/source/Dien_Del)'s offer to join other border warlords in forming the [Khmer People's National Liberation Front](/source/Khmer_People's_National_Liberation_Front) (KPNLF). Sileah wanted a united organisation instead of a front, as well as a unified command structure. It was the first resistance group to pledge loyalty to Prince [Norodom Sihanouk](/source/Norodom_Sihanouk), later becoming the military wing of his [FUNCINPEC](/source/FUNCINPEC) party. MOULINAKA received most of its backing from [French](/source/France)-based Cambodian exiles and its support base was in the [refugee camps](/source/refugee_camps) along the Thai-Cambodian border, principally [Nong Chan Refugee Camp](/source/Nong_Chan_Refugee_Camp) near [Aranyaprathet](/source/Aranyaprathet).<ref>Shawcross W. ''The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust, and Modern Conscience.'' New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984, p. 229.</ref> The MOULINAKA was the forerunner of the more recognized umbrella organization ANS or [Armée Nationale Sihanoukiste](/source/Military_history_of_Cambodia).<ref>[http://www.country-data.com/frd/cs/cambodia/kh_appnb.html LOC - Cambodia Major Political and Military Organizations]</ref>

Sileah died at age 45 on August 16, 1980, apparently of [malaria](/source/malaria), and paratroop colonel [Nhem Sophon](/source/Nhem_Sophon) took over sole control of MOULINAKA.<ref>Corfield JJ. "A History of the Cambodian Non-Communist Resistance, 1975-1983." Clayton, Vic., Australia: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1991, p. 11.</ref> General [In Tam](/source/In_Tam) later took charge of military operations of the ANS.<ref>Etcheson C., "Civil War and the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea," ''Third World Quarterly'', 9(1) January 1987/ISSN 0143-6597/87, p. 8.</ref>  He was succeeded in 1985 by Sihanouk's son, [Norodom Ranariddh](/source/Norodom_Ranariddh).

In 1992, a splinter group from the FUNCINPEC party, the MOULINAKA Nakator-Sou (Kampuchean Freedom Fighter Party) was formed by Prum Neakaareach. The party took part in the 1993 elections and won one seat in [Kampong Cham](/source/Kampong_Cham_Province) but was dissolved in 1998 due to infighting.

MOULINAKA also joined [Hun Sen](/source/Hun_Sen)'s [Cambodian People's Party](/source/Cambodian_People's_Party) (CPP) after the 1993 elections, dealing a blow to FUNCINPEC, for they had both previously fought together against the [PRK/SOC](/source/PRK%2FSOC) Pro-[Hanoi](/source/Hanoi) regime, and because FUNCINPEC had given the MOULINAKA a government position at their own expense.<ref>Sorpong Peou ''Intervention & Change in Cambodia''</ref>

==External links==
* [http://www.ina.fr/histoire-et-conflits/autres-conflits/video/CAB8001092401/plateau-speciale-cambodge.fr.html Video in French featuring MOULINAKA troops and an interview with Kong Sileah some 40 days before his death.]

==References==
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