First They Killed My Father-a Film US admit VN save Cambodia

[Pakhtoon yum]

40 years ago, On 25 December 1978, Vietnam launched a full-scale attack of Kampuchea (Counter-offensive on the Southwestern border ) and removed the Communist Party of Kampuchea government from power. CN accused VN to invade Cambodia and begged for US-JP's support to attack VN in 1979.

Millions VN soldiers sacrificed their lives to protect Cambodian against genocide Pol Pot regime backed by CN while thousands VNese also lost their lives while Deng tried his best to stop VN helping Cambodian by attacking VN border from 1979 to 1988.

A film is just like an apologize from US people to VN for being cheated by their greedy Government during VN war and the campaign to save Cambodian by VN people who just wanna leave in peace, but force to fight in so many wars against France-US-CN- Pol Pot till 1988
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Link of the movie wt VNese sub (click xem phim), VN troops appear in 1:47:10 and told Camb kids, "go, u r safe now, VN troops r here !" , @Nilgiri @Viet can u help me to find link in English ??

http://www.phimmoi.net/phim/dau-tien-ho-giet-cha-toi-6007/

You should invest in some periods my friend.

 

[Viva_Viet]

You should invest in some periods my friend.

Invest in some periods ? Which period I should invest bro??

 

[kankan326]

Vietnam would invade Cambodia no matter of what. Pol Pot was just an excuse. And Cambodia was the second victim on Vietnamese expansion plan(They already controlled Lao). Thailand, Myanmar were the next to the other. Why Vietnam was so aggressive? 1,Vietnamese have been always dreaming to dominate the whole Indochina region for like hundred years. They still have the dream even NOW. 2, Vietnamese were very confident with their military capability. That's reasonable. They defeated France and USA and annexed South Vietnam at unexpected speed. They got Soviet Union full support. 3, Soviet Union took aggressive and expansive strategy at that time. Vietnam as its ally , was required to cooperate this strategy. China weakened and stopped Vietnamese expansion ambition and plan by starting the border war. It's good thing for the world. China (and US) supported Pol Pot just because he was the only one in Cambodia that had guts to resist Vietnamese expansion.

 

[Viva_Viet]

Vietnam would invade Cambodia no matter of what. Pol Pot was just an excuse. And Cambodia was the second victim on Vietnamese expansion plan(They already controlled Lao). Thailand, Myanmar were the next to the other.

CN also wanna take sub Mekong region, but u can not cos your PLA suck

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Before we were to leave, Mao met with Brother Truong Chinh and myself. Mao sat down to chat with us, and in the end he announced: “Comrades, I would like you to know this. I will be president of 500 million land-hungry peasants, and I will bring an army to strike downwards into Southeast Asia.” Also seated there, Deng Xiaoping added: “It is mainly because the poor peasants are in such dire straits!”

Once we were outside, I told Brother Truong Chinh: “There you have it, the plot to take our country and Southeast Asia. It is clear now.” They dared to announce it in such a way. They thought we would not understand. It is true that not a minute goes by that they do not think of fighting Vietnam!

I will say more to you comrades so that you may see more of the military importance of this matter. Mao asked me:

In Laos, how many square kilometers [of land] are there?

I answered:
About 200,000 [sq. km.].

What is its population? [Mao asked]:

[I answered]: Around 3 million!

[Mao responded:] That’s not very much! I’ll bring my people there, indeed!

[Mao asked:] How many square kilometers [of land] are there in Thailand?.

[I responded]: About 500,000 [sq. km.].

And how many people? [Mao asked].

About 40 million! [I answered].

My God! [Mao said], Szechwan province of China has 500,000 sq. km., but has 90 million people. I’ll take some more of my people there, too [to Thailand]!

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/comr...m-leader-on-china-aggression-mao-deng.323391/

Why Vietnam was so aggressive? 1,Vietnamese have been always dreaming to dominate the whole Indochina region for like hundred years. They still have the dream even NOW. 2, Vietnamese were very confident with their military capability. That's reasonable. They defeated France and USA and annexed South Vietnam at unexpected speed. They got Soviet Union full support. 3, Soviet Union took aggressive and expansive strategy at that time. Vietnam as its ally , was required to cooperate this strategy. China weakened and stopped Vietnamese expansion ambition and plan by starting the border war. It's good thing for the world. China (and US) supported Pol Pot just because he was the only one in Cambodia that had guts to resist Vietnamese expansion.

Its true, Laos still under VN's control, but bcs Laotian realize that Vnese r much smarter and much stronger than them, so its a waste to fight against VN and it'd better to ask for VN's protection so they will survive against big bad nations like US-CN . VN still protect Laos well and Laotian r happy wt our protection.

Same thing to native Cambodian, Vnese r much smarter and much stronger than them and they (native Cambodian) wanna have protection from VN like in Laos, too. Only Cnese ethnic like Pol Pot, a Cnese-Cambodian, want Cnese rules Camb in barbaric way instead of civilized way like VN.

And do u guys realize that u guys Cnese also have Zero chance against US's bully now ?? US will find all ways to destroy CN like they did to Soviet, chaos in 2023 is coming . What u sow shall u reap.

 

[Brainsucker]

Do u realze that CN can not survive if their leader, their people keep living in delusion ??

Is CN strong ?? Hell No ! US beat CN easly in 1958 TW conflict cos your air force suck. And bcs PLAF suck, thats why Deng had to beg for help from US spy bird to gather Intel before attack VN ( but still lost in 1979 war even when VN main forces were busy to eliminate Pol Pot). And bcs CN army suck since ancient time, that why CNese has to live in useless location wt vast barren land and desert.

CN economy growth also tks to US-JP's mercy and support. If US arrested Huawei right after Soviet collapse, then Huawei would not survive till now to brag abt 5G.

Dude, your PLA sucks and corrupted, your economy growth mainly tks to US-JP's mercy and support since 1979, but US want CN collapse now, so u guys will be the victim of 2023 chaos. What u sow shall u reap, CN support genocide and also help evil US-JP destroy Soviet, so now CN is the target of US and JP evil who massacred Cnese in ww2

WOW, just WOW.
Have you take your medicine?
And I have one question to you. Just one. Who ask you about that? Me? Nope. I didn't even ask you anything. So I'm surprise that you write that long words of nonsense to reply my previous post.
I didn't even bother to read it to the end. I don't even care or seriously read anything. So what is actually you're talking about?

 

[Viva_Viet]

WOW, just WOW.
Have you take your medicine?
And I have one question to you. Just one. Who ask you about that? Me? Nope. I didn't even ask you anything. So I'm surprise that you write that long words of nonsense to reply my previous post.
I didn't even bother to read it to the end. I don't even care or seriously read anything. So what is actually you're talking about?

Do I care if u read or not ?? No, I dont give a damn care, ur IQ is too low to understand, dude. Just want more ppl happy to see 2023 chaos in CN and they know why it happen after reading my post ha ha ha

 

[Brainsucker]

Do I care if u read or not ?? No, I dont give a damn care. Just want more ppl happy to see 2023 chaos in CN ha ha ha

So why do you even bother to write then? Isn't it just the same as wasting your own time for something that pointless? There is only one type of person that do something like that. It is people who have psychological problem, and be ordered by their psychiatrist to write down their fantasy, so they won't overload their mind with all those imagination . Are you that kind of people? I hope not.

But really, I really-really you're not. And I really-really don't understand why are you writing a lot of nonsense to me. When I didn't even mentioned, nor asking, or talking with you about some topic that I don't even care. I didn't even interested with those nonsense troll banter of yours. And I just posted to Nilgiri because something that hasn't any relation with your troll banter with other posters.

So, are your imagination is so wild that you write nonsense to reply my post and didn't even care that I read it or not?

 

[Viva_Viet]

So why do you even bother to write then? Isn't it just the same as wasting your own time for something that pointless? There is only one type of person that do something like that. It is people who have psychological problem, and be ordered by their psychiatrist to write down their fantasy, so they won't overload their mind with all those imagination . Are you that kind of people? I hope not.

But well, your imagination is so wild. 2023 chaos in China. LOL.

Cos its boring to wait till 2023 , so its Ok to write and explain again and again.

btw: I forgot u r from ID cos its hard to see the flag on the phone. Talking to CNese having more fun. ID is just like alien to VN.

 

[Brainsucker]

Cos its boring to wait till 2023 , so its Ok to write and explain again and again.

btw: I forgot u r from ID cos its hard to see the flag on the phone. Talking to CNese having more fun. ID is just like alien to VN.

Well, be wild with your imagination; if it can really save your from the insanity of boredom. I understand, to be bored is torturing. So it's okay to have more fun with Chinese posters.

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

Invest in some periods ? Which period I should invest bro??

Break your sentences with these (.)

 

[Nilgiri]

LOL. Viva Viet Flu is spreading.

Its a good flu lol... cracks everyone up.

 

[Viet]

Vietnam would invade Cambodia no matter of what. Pol Pot was just an excuse. And Cambodia was the second victim on Vietnamese expansion plan(They already controlled Lao). Thailand, Myanmar were the next to the other. Why Vietnam was so aggressive? 1,Vietnamese have been always dreaming to dominate the whole Indochina region for like hundred years. They still have the dream even NOW. 2, Vietnamese were very confident with their military capability. That's reasonable. They defeated France and USA and annexed South Vietnam at unexpected speed. They got Soviet Union full support. 3, Soviet Union took aggressive and expansive strategy at that time. Vietnam as its ally , was required to cooperate this strategy. China weakened and stopped Vietnamese expansion ambition and plan by starting the border war. It's good thing for the world. China (and US) supported Pol Pot just because he was the only one in Cambodia that had guts to resist Vietnamese expansion.

Every aggressor needs pretext or excuse. Following your logic, Japan aggression against China raping your women is justified because your ill intention toward Vietnam. Hitler Germany accused USSR of bad intentions toward the country before starting invasion.

Cambodia started the war. She attacked Vietnam’s western and southern flanks.

Should Vietnam do nothing?

 

[Viva_Viet]

40 Years Ago, Vietnam Steamrolled the Genocidal Khmer Rouge of Cambodia in a Lightning War

Sebastien Roblin
The National InterestJanuary 13, 2019, 6:00 AM GMT

Sebastien Roblin

Security, Asia


The invasion brought an end to the Khmer Rouge’s monstrous genocide, but not to the war itself. The Khmer Rouge waged a bloody guerilla resistance war against the Vietnamese and their Cambodian allies, assisted by two more Western-aligned resistance group.
40 Years Ago, Vietnam Steamrolled the Genocidal Khmer Rouge of Cambodia in a Lightning War

The fall of Saigon by North Vietnamese forces on April 30, 1975, was preceded two weeks earlier by another Communist victory: the capture of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge.

Yet less than four years later, Vietnamese troops would engage in a second conquest—this time targeting its erstwhile allies, using many of the tanks and aircraft it captured from South Vietnam.

The Khmer people of Cambodia have ethnic ties to southern Asia and practice a hybrid Buddhist-Hindu faith. Just as the Vietnamese historically resisted imperial occupation by China, the Khmer historically were subject to foreign encroachment from Vietnam.

The Khmer Rouge had been formed by a clique of Marxist students educated in Paris in the 1950s and 1960s, adopting a uniquely extreme ideology combining fervent Khmer nationalism with Maoist-style communism, which emphasizes revolution by the rural peasantry rather than an urbanized working class.

However, the Khmer began with only limited domestic support in Cambodia. Their conquest of Phnom Penh was only possible with aid from North Vietnam, which armed and organized the Khmer Rouge to so it could infiltrate its forces through Eastern Cambodia with less interference from the politically-divided Cambodian government. A massive bombing campaign by U.S. warplanes devastated rural Cambodia, delaying but failing to prevent a Communist victory, and may have increased pro-Communist sentiment amongst the peasantry.

The ruling clique renamed their country the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea and implemented a spectacularly self-destructive and brutal police state unlike any other Communist regime. Not merely content to promote rural interests, the Khmer forced Cambodian city-dwellers from their homes, emptying the cities so that urbanites could live an ‘authentic’ life in the countryside. The regime implemented Chinese Great Leap-style agricultural policies that predictably led hundreds of thousands to die from famine.

Hundreds of thousands more Cambodians suspected of political disloyalty or "immorality" were murdered in the infamous Killing Fields. Even adult victims’ children and babies were killed, smashed to death against tree trunks to save bullets. Xenophobic and obsessed with Khmer racial purity, the Khmer Rouge also targeted minorities and people of mixed descent. In four years of rule, these genocidal follies killed between 1.5 to 3 million people in a country of only 8 million.

The Khmer Rouge’s ultra-nationalism made them violently suspicious of the Vietnamese Communists, even though the Khmer Rouge’s conquest of Cambodia had only been possible with Hanoi’s support. As early 1974, the Khmer Rouge began purging Vietnamese-trained members from its ranks and skirmishing with Vietnamese troops. Increasingly, the Cambodian Communists turned to China for support, which furnished Kampuchea with economic and military aid.

Still, Communist Cambodia and Vietnam remained officially friends at first, and continued diplomatic outreach even while their troops clashed violently over border towns and outlying islands. But the Khmer Rouge felt that Vietnamese border towns as belonging historically into the Khmer—and it asserted its claims with habitual violence, dispatching troops on cross-border raids that massacred thousands of Vietnamese civilians.

Hanoi finally responded to the attacks in December 1977 with a punitive multi-division invasion supported by air power. However, though the Khmer Rouge’s forces were steam-rolled in combat, the Khmer to escalate hostilities even further with more cross brutal cross-border raids, peaking with the merciless slaughter of 3,157 villagers at Ba Chúc in April 1978, leaving only two survivors.

Hanoi then tried to unseat the Khmer Rouge regime using its own Maoist ‘People’s War’ doctrine, by organizing a rural insurrection amongst sympathetic elements of the population. Ironically, the Maoist doctrine proved unsuccessful in the face of the zealousness of the Khmer Rouge’s secret police, which learned of the subversive elements and crushed them.

By this point, the conflict increasingly was drawn into the dysfunctional relations between Communist states. Beijing wanted to cultivate Cambodia as an outpost of its influence. Vietnam, seeking to keep the Chinese out, signed a treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union, which by then was possibly on worse terms with Beijing than with Washington, securing the military and political support for a Cambodian invasion.

The Vietnamese Army assembled 150,000 troops in thirteen divisions on the Cambodian border. It could draw upon a pool of 900 tanks—a mix of T-54 and Type 59 medium tanks, PT-76 and Type 63 amphibious tanks, and captured U.S. M41 Walker Bulldogs. It’s Air Force counted over 300 warplanes including squadrons of A-37 Dragonfly attack jets and F-5 Freedom fighters captured from South Vietnam, as well as older Soviet MiG-21 and MiG-19 jets and beefy new Mi-24A Hind armored attack helicopters. These were vectored to targets by observers in slow Cessna UH-17 and O-1 utility planes. In addition, the Vietnamese organized three regiments (15,000 men) of Cambodian fighters that would form of the nucleus of a new Cambodian government.

The Kampuchean Revolutionary Army mustered only seventy thousand troops and far fewer tanks. Its fledgling Air Force retained some twenty abandoned Huey helicopters and twenty-two T-28 Trojans trainers, and sixteen Shenyang J-6 fighters (MiG-19 clones) received from China, which also dispatched thousands of advisors.

Vietnamese troops began a limited invasion of north-eastern Cambodia on December 21, 1978, then four days later launched the main offensive on three axes in the southeast, converging on the capital of Pnomh Penh. The Vietnamese advanced blitzkrieg-style, using armored columns supported by airpower to "fix" enemies in place, and then having the reinforcement waves bypass identified enemy positions to sustain the advance and cut enemy lines of supply. Regional capitals Kracheh and Stung Treng were captured in five days, then the port in Kampot seized by an amphibious landing

The Khmer Rouge regime tried tackling the Vietnamese attacks head-on, but its starving and demoralized troops failed to mount an effective resistance. After just two weeks of fighting, Pol Pot’s clique ordered its troops to melt into the jungle to wage a guerilla resistance war and fled Phnom Penh in five Huey helicopters—only narrowly dodging a Vietnamese air strike.

Only January 7, Vietnamese tanks rolled into Phnom Penh, linking up with commandos earlier landed by helicopter, and installed a new government under Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge battalion commander. The Khmer Rouge’s navy was sunk nine days later by the Vietnamese Navy in a bloody battle that saw twenty-two ships sunk.

China, infuriated by the overthrow of its client-state, launched a punitive invasion of mountainous Northern Vietnam on February 17. However, the People’s Liberation Army’s inexperienced troops and tanks sustained heavy losses from the defending Vietnamese. The invasion failed to divert Vietnamese troops from Cambodia, and a ceasefire was declared after a month.

The invasion brought an end to the Khmer Rouge’s monstrous genocide, but not to the war itself. The Khmer Rouge waged a bloody guerilla resistance war against the Vietnamese and their Cambodian allies, assisted by two more Western-aligned resistance group.

Hanoi found to its surprise that it had become internationally ostracized for the invasion. Isolated from international aid, Vietnam suffered economically and became closely dependent on the Soviet Union. Many Khmer, for their part, saw the Vietnamese intervention as vindicating the Khmer Rouge’s worst fears of Hanoi’s imperial designs on Cambodia.

Throughout the 1980s, the United States, smarting over its defeat in Vietnam, collaborated with Thailand and China to funnel arms and support to resistance armies, some of which wound up in Khmer Rouge hands. The Vietnamese army ironically found itself on the other side of a brutal counterinsurgency war not unlike the one it had waged against the U.S. forces during the 1960s and 1970s.

The decades-long war finally wound to its end in the 1990s, with a Vietnamese withdrawal, deployment of a UN peacekeepers and the disbanding of the Khmer Rouge. The Hun Sen regime managed to subvert provisions for democratic elections, however, and remains in power to this day, now again courting Chinese support.

Vietnam’s invasion brought an end to a horrifying genocide. Furthermore, Hanoi can hardly be faulted for using force after foreign troops repeatedly invaded its territory and massacred thousands of its civilians.

However, Vietnamese generals and politicians have made clear the invasion was meant to serve Vietnam’s interests in expelling Chinese influence over Cambodia, not a humanitarian mercy mission. For some Khmer, the Vietnamese were seen as yet another foreign invader.

Thus the tragic conflict defies the natural desire to define the war in terms of black-and-white morality.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/40-years-ago-vietnam-steamrolled-060000814.html

 

[Nilgiri]

40 Years Ago, Vietnam Steamrolled the Genocidal Khmer Rouge of Cambodia in a Lightning War

Sebastien Roblin
The National InterestJanuary 13, 2019, 6:00 AM GMT

Sebastien Roblin

Security, Asia


The invasion brought an end to the Khmer Rouge’s monstrous genocide, but not to the war itself. The Khmer Rouge waged a bloody guerilla resistance war against the Vietnamese and their Cambodian allies, assisted by two more Western-aligned resistance group.
40 Years Ago, Vietnam Steamrolled the Genocidal Khmer Rouge of Cambodia in a Lightning War

The fall of Saigon by North Vietnamese forces on April 30, 1975, was preceded two weeks earlier by another Communist victory: the capture of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge.

Yet less than four years later, Vietnamese troops would engage in a second conquest—this time targeting its erstwhile allies, using many of the tanks and aircraft it captured from South Vietnam.

The Khmer people of Cambodia have ethnic ties to southern Asia and practice a hybrid Buddhist-Hindu faith. Just as the Vietnamese historically resisted imperial occupation by China, the Khmer historically were subject to foreign encroachment from Vietnam.

The Khmer Rouge had been formed by a clique of Marxist students educated in Paris in the 1950s and 1960s, adopting a uniquely extreme ideology combining fervent Khmer nationalism with Maoist-style communism, which emphasizes revolution by the rural peasantry rather than an urbanized working class.

However, the Khmer began with only limited domestic support in Cambodia. Their conquest of Phnom Penh was only possible with aid from North Vietnam, which armed and organized the Khmer Rouge to so it could infiltrate its forces through Eastern Cambodia with less interference from the politically-divided Cambodian government. A massive bombing campaign by U.S. warplanes devastated rural Cambodia, delaying but failing to prevent a Communist victory, and may have increased pro-Communist sentiment amongst the peasantry.

The ruling clique renamed their country the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea and implemented a spectacularly self-destructive and brutal police state unlike any other Communist regime. Not merely content to promote rural interests, the Khmer forced Cambodian city-dwellers from their homes, emptying the cities so that urbanites could live an ‘authentic’ life in the countryside. The regime implemented Chinese Great Leap-style agricultural policies that predictably led hundreds of thousands to die from famine.

Hundreds of thousands more Cambodians suspected of political disloyalty or "immorality" were murdered in the infamous Killing Fields. Even adult victims’ children and babies were killed, smashed to death against tree trunks to save bullets. Xenophobic and obsessed with Khmer racial purity, the Khmer Rouge also targeted minorities and people of mixed descent. In four years of rule, these genocidal follies killed between 1.5 to 3 million people in a country of only 8 million.

The Khmer Rouge’s ultra-nationalism made them violently suspicious of the Vietnamese Communists, even though the Khmer Rouge’s conquest of Cambodia had only been possible with Hanoi’s support. As early 1974, the Khmer Rouge began purging Vietnamese-trained members from its ranks and skirmishing with Vietnamese troops. Increasingly, the Cambodian Communists turned to China for support, which furnished Kampuchea with economic and military aid.

Still, Communist Cambodia and Vietnam remained officially friends at first, and continued diplomatic outreach even while their troops clashed violently over border towns and outlying islands. But the Khmer Rouge felt that Vietnamese border towns as belonging historically into the Khmer—and it asserted its claims with habitual violence, dispatching troops on cross-border raids that massacred thousands of Vietnamese civilians.

Hanoi finally responded to the attacks in December 1977 with a punitive multi-division invasion supported by air power. However, though the Khmer Rouge’s forces were steam-rolled in combat, the Khmer to escalate hostilities even further with more cross brutal cross-border raids, peaking with the merciless slaughter of 3,157 villagers at Ba Chúc in April 1978, leaving only two survivors.

Hanoi then tried to unseat the Khmer Rouge regime using its own Maoist ‘People’s War’ doctrine, by organizing a rural insurrection amongst sympathetic elements of the population. Ironically, the Maoist doctrine proved unsuccessful in the face of the zealousness of the Khmer Rouge’s secret police, which learned of the subversive elements and crushed them.

By this point, the conflict increasingly was drawn into the dysfunctional relations between Communist states. Beijing wanted to cultivate Cambodia as an outpost of its influence. Vietnam, seeking to keep the Chinese out, signed a treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union, which by then was possibly on worse terms with Beijing than with Washington, securing the military and political support for a Cambodian invasion.

The Vietnamese Army assembled 150,000 troops in thirteen divisions on the Cambodian border. It could draw upon a pool of 900 tanks—a mix of T-54 and Type 59 medium tanks, PT-76 and Type 63 amphibious tanks, and captured U.S. M41 Walker Bulldogs. It’s Air Force counted over 300 warplanes including squadrons of A-37 Dragonfly attack jets and F-5 Freedom fighters captured from South Vietnam, as well as older Soviet MiG-21 and MiG-19 jets and beefy new Mi-24A Hind armored attack helicopters. These were vectored to targets by observers in slow Cessna UH-17 and O-1 utility planes. In addition, the Vietnamese organized three regiments (15,000 men) of Cambodian fighters that would form of the nucleus of a new Cambodian government.

The Kampuchean Revolutionary Army mustered only seventy thousand troops and far fewer tanks. Its fledgling Air Force retained some twenty abandoned Huey helicopters and twenty-two T-28 Trojans trainers, and sixteen Shenyang J-6 fighters (MiG-19 clones) received from China, which also dispatched thousands of advisors.

Vietnamese troops began a limited invasion of north-eastern Cambodia on December 21, 1978, then four days later launched the main offensive on three axes in the southeast, converging on the capital of Pnomh Penh. The Vietnamese advanced blitzkrieg-style, using armored columns supported by airpower to "fix" enemies in place, and then having the reinforcement waves bypass identified enemy positions to sustain the advance and cut enemy lines of supply. Regional capitals Kracheh and Stung Treng were captured in five days, then the port in Kampot seized by an amphibious landing

The Khmer Rouge regime tried tackling the Vietnamese attacks head-on, but its starving and demoralized troops failed to mount an effective resistance. After just two weeks of fighting, Pol Pot’s clique ordered its troops to melt into the jungle to wage a guerilla resistance war and fled Phnom Penh in five Huey helicopters—only narrowly dodging a Vietnamese air strike.

Only January 7, Vietnamese tanks rolled into Phnom Penh, linking up with commandos earlier landed by helicopter, and installed a new government under Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge battalion commander. The Khmer Rouge’s navy was sunk nine days later by the Vietnamese Navy in a bloody battle that saw twenty-two ships sunk.

China, infuriated by the overthrow of its client-state, launched a punitive invasion of mountainous Northern Vietnam on February 17. However, the People’s Liberation Army’s inexperienced troops and tanks sustained heavy losses from the defending Vietnamese. The invasion failed to divert Vietnamese troops from Cambodia, and a ceasefire was declared after a month.

The invasion brought an end to the Khmer Rouge’s monstrous genocide, but not to the war itself. The Khmer Rouge waged a bloody guerilla resistance war against the Vietnamese and their Cambodian allies, assisted by two more Western-aligned resistance group.

Hanoi found to its surprise that it had become internationally ostracized for the invasion. Isolated from international aid, Vietnam suffered economically and became closely dependent on the Soviet Union. Many Khmer, for their part, saw the Vietnamese intervention as vindicating the Khmer Rouge’s worst fears of Hanoi’s imperial designs on Cambodia.

Throughout the 1980s, the United States, smarting over its defeat in Vietnam, collaborated with Thailand and China to funnel arms and support to resistance armies, some of which wound up in Khmer Rouge hands. The Vietnamese army ironically found itself on the other side of a brutal counterinsurgency war not unlike the one it had waged against the U.S. forces during the 1960s and 1970s.

The decades-long war finally wound to its end in the 1990s, with a Vietnamese withdrawal, deployment of a UN peacekeepers and the disbanding of the Khmer Rouge. The Hun Sen regime managed to subvert provisions for democratic elections, however, and remains in power to this day, now again courting Chinese support.

Vietnam’s invasion brought an end to a horrifying genocide. Furthermore, Hanoi can hardly be faulted for using force after foreign troops repeatedly invaded its territory and massacred thousands of its civilians.

However, Vietnamese generals and politicians have made clear the invasion was meant to serve Vietnam’s interests in expelling Chinese influence over Cambodia, not a humanitarian mercy mission. For some Khmer, the Vietnamese were seen as yet another foreign invader.

Thus the tragic conflict defies the natural desire to define the war in terms of black-and-white morality.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/40-years-ago-vietnam-steamrolled-060000814.html

Best thing Vietnam ever did! Chinese still crying about it lol....its ok daddy JPN and US can console them.

 

[Edison Chen]

Thank you Cambodia for retaliating against VN's bully and Indo-ChinaPeninsula wet dream.