Bayan faduwar mulkin Pol Pot na Democratic Kampuchea, Cambodia ta kasance ƙarƙashin mamaya na Vietnam kuma an kafa gwamnatin Hanoi, Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Kampuchea.Yakin basasa ya barke a cikin shekarun 1980 yana adawa da gwamnatin Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces da gwamnatin hadin gwiwa ta Democratic Kampuchea, gwamnati a gudun hijira da ta kunshi bangarori uku na siyasa Cambodia: Prince Norodom Sihanouk's FUNCINPEC jam'iyyar, Party of Democratic Kampuchea (sau da yawa ake magana a kai). Khmer Rouge) da Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF).Ƙoƙarin zaman lafiya ya tsananta a 1989 da 1991 tare da tarukan ƙasa da ƙasa guda biyu a birnin Paris, kuma tawagar wanzar da zaman lafiya ta Majalisar Ɗinkin Duniya ta taimaka wajen tsagaita wuta.A matsayin wani bangare na yunkurin zaman lafiya, an gudanar da zabukan da Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ta dauki nauyin gudanarwa a shekarar 1993, kuma sun taimaka wajen dawo da wani kamanceceniya, kamar yadda saurin raguwar Khmer Rouge ya yi a tsakiyar shekarun 1990.An maido da Norodom Sihanouk a matsayin Sarki.Gwamnatin hadin gwiwa, wacce aka kafa bayan zabukan kasa a shekarar 1998, ta kawo sabuntar zaman lafiyar siyasa da mika wuya na sauran dakarun Khmer Rouge a 1998.