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    Vietnam launched an invasion of Cambodia in late December 1978 to remove Pol Pot. Two million Cambodians had died at the hands of his Khmer Rouge regime and Pol Pot's troops had conducted bloody cross-border raids into Vietnam, Cambodia's historic enemy, massacring civilians and torching villages.
    In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand. The Vietnamese Army continued to pursue Khmer Rouge forces.
     
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    Cambodian–Vietnamese War - Wikipedia

    On 25 December 1978, Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Kampuchea, occupying the country in two weeks and removing the government of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from power. See more

    The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was an armed conflict between Democratic Kampuchea, controlled by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The war began with repeated attacks by the See more

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    1975–1976: from fighting to building friendly relations
    The Fall of Phnom Penh and the Fall of Saigon in April 1975 immediately brought a new conflict between Vietnam and Cambodia. Although the North Vietnamese and … See more

    When the Khmer Rouge government was removed from power in January 1979, the Kampuchean people hoped that peace and liberty would return to their country. This was reinforced by the Constitution of the People's Republic of Kampuchea, proclaimed in 1981, … See more

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    On 14 January 1985, Hun Sen was appointed Prime Minister of the People's Republic of … See more

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    Vietnam War
    During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese and Cambodian communists had formed an alliance to fight U.S.-backed governments in their respective … See more

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    On 21 December 1978, Kampuchea's new-found strength was tested when a Vietnamese offensive, consisting of two divisions, crossed … See more

    When the Vietnamese leaders launched their invasion of Kampuchea to remove the Khmer Rouge government in 1978, they did not expect a negative reaction from the international community. However, the events that followed the invasion showed that they had … See more

     
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  3. Cambodia - Vietnamese Intervention, Khmer Rouge, …

    3 days ago · In December 1978 a large Vietnamese army moved into Cambodia, brushing aside the Democratic Kampuchean forces. Within two weeks the government had fled Phnom Penh for Thailand, and the Vietnamese had …

  4. 25 December 1978: Vietnam Invades Cambodia

    On 25 December 1978, 150,000 Vietnamese troops invaded Democratic Kampuchea. They overran the Kampuchean Revolutionary Army in just two weeks, thereby ending the excesses of Pol Pot’s regime, which had been …

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    On December 15th, 1978, Vietnam launched a blitzkrieg invasion of Cambodia to defend their land and force Cambodian Prime Minister Pol Pot's Khmers Rouge regime from its seat of power. Two million Cambodians had died at the hands …

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    Simultaneously, Sihanouk lost the support of Cambodia's conservatives as a result of his failure to come to grips with the deteriorating economic situation (exacerbated by the loss of rice exports, most of which went to the PAVN/Viet …

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