Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces

The Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces, abbreviated KPRAF, were the national armed forces of the People's Republic of Kampuchea, the government that held power in Phnom Penh from 1979 to 1993 after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. They were raised with Vietnamese training and equipment so that the new administration could present a national army of its own and eventually relieve Vietnamese troops of internal security duties. The force grew out of militias, former Khmer Rouge members and conscripts, but heavy desertion and thin training left it weak, so most of the fighting against the Khmer Rouge-led resistance coalition fell to the Vietnamese army. It was renamed the Cambodian People's Armed Forces in 1989 and absorbed into the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces after the 1993 elections.