Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia

When tensions between Cambodia and Vietnam broke into the open, the reason was ostensibly Cambodian demands that Hanoi return territory conquered by the Vietnamese centuries earlier. Vietnam's offers to negotiate the territorial issue were rejected, however, because of more urgent Khmer concerns that Hanoi intended to dominate Cambodia by forming an Indochina Federation (see below) or "special relationship." In any event, Vietnamese interest in resolving the situation peacefully clearly came to an end once the decisison was made to invade Cambodia.

Indochina Federation A political concept, never fully realized, joining the three Indochinese states into a confederation, first proposed at the Indochinese Communist Party Central Committee meeting in October 1930. The government of France resurrected the term in 1946 to describe a limited internal self-government granted to the states of Vietnam (including Cochinchina), Laos, and Cambodia. In the 1980s, the term was used disparagingly by some observers and analysts to categorize Vietnam's military presence in, and influence over, Laos and Cambodia.

The invasion and the subsequent establishment of a puppet regime in Phnom Penh were costly to Hanoi, further isolating it from the international community. Vietnam's relations with a number of countries and with the United Nations (UN) deteriorated. The UN General Assembly refused to recognize the Vietnamese-supported government in Phnom Penh and demanded a total Vietnamese withdrawal followed by internationally supervised free elections. The ASEAN nations were unified in opposing Vietnam's action. Urged by Thailand's example, they provided support for the anti-Phnom Penh resistance. In February 1979, China was moved to retaliate against Vietnam across their mutual border

In retrospect, Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia appears to have been a serious mistake. Apparently it was a decision hastily taken in the belief that a quick, successful takeover would force the Chinese to accept the new situation as a fait accompli. The undertaking was also based on the estimate that Pol Pot had neither the political base nor the military power to resist a traumatic assault, which would shatter his capability to govern and cause the Khmer people to rally overwhelmingly to the new government. Assumptions proved wrong, and the strategy failed. The invasion did not solve the Pol Pot problem, but rather bogged Vietnam down in a costly war that tarnished its image abroad and undermined relations with China that might otherwise have been salvaged. The war drained the economy and continued to be one of Vietnam's unsolved national security problems in late 1987.

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[MysteriousXMagicX]

The Cambodian opposition coalition was formed after the Vietnamese invasion, when hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops invaded Vietnam in February 1979 ''to teach Vietnam a lesson'' and then soon withdrew. With the support of the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, China revived the Khmer Rouge to try to drive out the Vietnamese and Mr. Hun Sen, and put together the opposition coalition with the acquiescence of the United States.

[MysteriousXMagicX]

The United Nations recognizes the coalition as Cambodia's legitimate government.

[s3131689]

Yeah! Khmer Rouge mass murdered millions of Cambodian and they invaded Vietnam and murdered many thousands of Vietnamese. We still have memorial of people they murdered here in Vietnam. VN simply fought back to defend ourselves and bring peace to Cambodian. You can't expect no one die in a war.

Even the American-Iraq war, hundred of thousand civilians die!

PS: Uberaoshi u r either an idiot or a !@#$%^!!!

[CoBayPhatPhoi]

When Khmer Rouge to murder people in Cambodia , where is the United Nations Organizations (UNO) , and now they abuse Vietnam .

[shitnamese401]

@khmerkilledallviet Who cares about viet shit lol! It's all right to kill them. They are worth less than a piece of shit!

[khmerkilledallviet]

@shitnamese401 be honest with you.i was the witness.khmer killed all vietnamese in cambodia in 1975 to 1979.khmer killed viet babie,girls,boys,women,men,old men,old women and whole family.make me sick when i think what i saw in the passed.khmer took people to jungle and murdered them like animals.

[khmerkilledallviet]

@s3131689 khmer killed all vietnamese in cambodia in1975 to 1979.khmer killed whole family include babie.i felt sad for all vietnamese people died in cambodia.khmer killed whoever speak vietnam langauge.khmer also killed million of chinese.not many chinese left in cambodia.

[lalacakez01]

that's bullshit, the land was given to the Vietnamese in the 1940s

not centuries earlier get your shit together.

[shitnamese401]

@VNKillschinks you call 10 year occpuation of cambodia help?? you dark azz viet nigger!! without china protesting to the u.n. you vietgooks will never leave!! can't you guys fight your own battle without the help of outside forces! stupid viet monkey!

[VNKillschinks]

@shitnamese401 Hey stupid chink, Khmer friends told me how brave Viet soldiers DESTROYED your chink-backed Khmer rouge before they had a chance to MURDER OFF ALL THE KHMERS to let millions of chinks colonized Cambodia so shut your lying chink mouth. How did chinks help Khmers? Tell me, you MURDEROUS chinks!!!

I really hope the US Navy will NUKED you chinks back to the Stone Age very soon. :-)

[shitnamese401]

@VNKillschinks hahahahaha.. tell this to any cambodian and they will laugh at your sorry viet azz!!!!! it's actually china who helped cambodia from being swallowed by the vietcomg hanoi piece of shit!

[VNKillschinks]

@Mouse2409 I totally agree. Evil china must be PUNISHED for its support of the Khmer Rouge while Vietnam must be REWARED as heros who totally destroyed the Khmer Rouges.

[Mouse2409]

If the Vietnamese military were not in Cambodia, Cambodians would have perished already.