Education
East Asia
Bougainville 1988 – 1998
Bougainville is an island province in PNG and the site of one of the world's largest
gold and copper mines. From 1988 to 1998, the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA)
waged a civil war in Papua New Guinea (PNG), resulting in an estimated 10,000 ...
Cambodia 1967 – 1975
In 1967, the Communist Party of Kampuchea initiated an eight-year armed conflict with
the Kingdom of Cambodia that left between 275,000 and 310,000 dead.1 The conflict
emerged from period of immense instability both within Cambodia ...
China 1945 – 1949
The Chinese Civil War was a military conflict fought between the Kuomintang (KMT or
the Nationalist government), and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Following the
Japanese defeat in the Second Sino-Japanese War, during ...
Laos 1959 –1975
The Laotian civil war was fought during the years 1959–75, mainly between the Royal
Lao government (RLG) and the Communist Pathet Lao, along with non-state actors such
as the Hmong guerillas and external actors like ...
Malaya 1947 –1960
The Malayan Emergency was an internal conflict within the British colony of Malaya
(and later in the independent state of Malaysia) between the government(s) and the
Malayan Communist Party (MCP) ...
South Vietnam 1955 – 1975
The Vietnam War was a 20 year–long conflict that pitted South Vietnam, an initially
temporary political construct created in 1955, against the Communist Party of North
Vietnam and its agents ...
Thailand 1965 – 1983
The internal conflict of Thailand from 1965–83, also known as the Communist insurgency
in Thailand, was fought between the government of Thailand and the Communist Party
of Thailand ...