Qualla: Samlout District https://qualla.com/samlout-district en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Samlout District https://qualla.com/samlout-district Samlout District: Introduction https://qualla.com/samlout-district/ On the morning of 2 April 1967, soldiers came into the villages around Samlaut to collect the rice harvest, and the farmers refused. In the scuffle that followed two soldiers were killed and several rifles taken. By that afternoon around two hundred people were marching behind banners denouncing the government of Prime Minister Lon Nol, and they went for the most conspicuous symbol of the state within reach: the Royal Khmer Socialist Youth agricultural settlement at Stung Kranhoung. By nightfall they had overrun the guards at two more posts and executed a local mayor. Historians differ on almost everything about what happened next, but very few dispute where it started. Samlout - Samlaut in the older spelling - is a district of seven communes and forty-nine villages in the Cardamom foothills of Battambang Province, and the war that consumed Cambodia for the following decade opened here, over rice.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/1/p/samlout-district-wp/w61p-samlout-district-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Samlout District: Rice at Gunpoint https://qualla.com/samlout-district/ The immediate grievance was a scheme called the rammassage du paddy. Cambodia's economy leaned on taxing rice exports, and by the mid-1960s farmers were quietly selling their crop across the border where buyers paid better. In early 1967 Lon Nol had the army take over the buying,...

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