MONATIO

Mouvement National
Leader
Hem Keth Dara
Dates active17 April 1975
IdeologyKhmer nationalism
WarsCambodian Civil War

MONATIO, short for Mouvement National (lit. 'National Movement'), was a short-lived, supposedly nationalist, political faction in Cambodia. The exact nature of the group is still obscure. On April 17, 1975, as the Khmer Rouge had entered Phnom Penh, this group took out a motor-cavalcade on the streets of the capital welcoming the arrival of the Khmer Rouge.