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Republic continued to unravel, and on March 25, 1973, Tep Khunnah was the target of an assassination attempt when a grenade was thrown into his car. The incident was widely believed to be the work of Lon Non, whose "Republican Security Battalion" was linked with
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coalition government, although they were not allowed to vote in an
Assembly they still regarded as illegal. Tep Khunnah had, in the meantime, run into Lon Non in a Paris nightclub, punching him and causing him to lose several teeth.
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Republican Party was essentially a vehicle for Sirik Matak's interests. It functioned mainly as an alternative to the power bloc of the other coup leader, General
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