The Samlaut Uprising , otherwise called the Samlaut Rebellion or Battambang Revolts , consists Cause_to_be_included of two significant phases of revolts that first broke out Process_start near Samlaut in Battambang Province and subsequently spread Dispersal into surrounding Provinces in Cambodia during 1967-1968.The revolutionary movement was largely made up by the dissident rural peasantry led by a group of discontented leftist intellectuals against Prince Norodom Sihanouk ’ s political organization –the Sangkum regime .

Apart from Sihanouk 's strong-handed and corrupt Sangkum regime that fueled Supply peasant grievances , there have been diverging strands contributing the origins of this rebellion .