What was the prerogative of the Angkar in 19th century Cambodia?

Question

prerogative, as in, what was their goal in coming into power? What were the changes they wanted to make to Cambodia besides regulate on all the Lon Nol supporters?

Answer 1

Snow Globe is correct. Angkar means government or leadership in the Khmer (Cambodian) language, and the term was only used during the 1970's.

Angkar were the leadership of the Khmer Khrahom (Red Khmer) or as most people say, the Khmer Rouge who ruled Cambodia from 17th April 1975 until 4 January 1979.

The Khmer Khrahom were the New Cambodian Communist Party supposedly founded in 1961, as apposed to an earlier communist part or "Indochinese Communist Party" founded by Ho Chi Minh in the 1920's and dominated by the Vietnamese.

The leaders of Khmer Rouge attempted to apply the economic ideals as written in Khieu Samphan's PhD thesis written at university in Paris in the early 1960's. Unfortunately, because of a lot of persecution of the Khmer Rouge during the 1960's and early 1970's, the leaders were very paranoid and therefore started purging their own ranks along with thousands of ordinary people within Cambodia.

Answer 2

The Khmer word "angkar" means a government or regime, and is used to describe the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia between 1975-1979. I have not heard it used to describe the government of Cambodia during the 1800's. During that time, the French gradually took control of all Indochina and the royal family lost power. If you mean the 20th century, there are a lot of good websites about this. Watch the movie "The Killing Fields."
http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/index.html
http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/pol_pot.htm