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After ousting Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk, the US-backed government, Khmer Republic, was formed and led by Gen. Lon Nol. By December 1970, the media was much more in a cirtical conditions officially imposed by the government. For example, the Lon Nol administration ended freedom of the press by enforcing a pre-publication censorship rule. Consequently, many journalists often got threatened and attacked and at the same time many newspapers were closed down one after another. There were around 30 nwespapers running at the beginning of the regime, but by the end of 1974 only four or five newspapers could survive.

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