The situation was so bad, that Communist Party, Khmer Rouge, loyalists crawled out of the killing fields, fled to Vietnam
First of all, KR were literally invading VN. They considered the Mekong Delta theirs and planned to, yeah, kill everyone as usual. Weird story of beautiful Chinese girls helping them at that: https://archive.vn/dmOaf (paging u/TheImpossible1 for him to freak out).
They also killed the ethnic Cambodians who have fled to Cambodia to help them invade, the guys who have been originally armed by the Americans against the VC. Because, well, you know it, they were killing everyone. (They killed most of Cambodia's Chinese minority too.)
Vietnam was really bad at capitalizing (heh) on that because the very same guys (Hun Sen and friends, elderly now but still directly at power) later turned Cambodia into a Chinese colony after VN peaced out.
Cambodia more recently also had some border conflicts with Thailand.
The situation was so bad, that Communist Party, Khmer Rouge, loyalists crawled out of the killing fields, fled to Vietnam
First of all, KR were literally invading VN. They considered the Mekong Delta theirs and planned to, yeah, kill everyone as usual. Weird story of beautiful Chinese girls helping them at that: https://archive.vn/dmOaf (paging u/TheImpossible1 for him to feesk out).
They also killed the ethnic Cambodians who have fled to Cambodia to help them invade, the guys who have been originally armed by the Americans against the VC. Because, well, you know it, they were killing everyone. (They killed most of Cambodia's Chinese minority too.)
Vietnam was really bad at capitalizing (heh) on that because the very same guys (Hun Sen and friends, elderly now but still directly at power) later turned Cambodia into a Chinese colony after VN peaced out.
Cambodia more recently also had some border conflicts with Thailand.
The situation was so bad, that Communist Party, Khmer Rouge, loyalists crawled out of the killing fields, fled to Vietnam
First of all, KR were literally invading VN. They considered the Mekong Delta theirs and planned to, yeah, kill everyone as usual. https://archive.vn/dmOaf
They also killed the ethnic Cambodians who have fled to Cambodia to help them invade, the guys who have been originally armed by the Americans against the VC. Because, well, you know it, they were killing everyone. (They killed most of Cambodia's Chinese minority too.)
Vietnam was really bad at capitalizing (heh) on that because the very same guys (Hun Sen and friends, elderly now but still directly at power) later turned Cambodia into a Chinese colony after VN peaced out.
Cambodia more recently also had some border conflicts with Thailand.
The situation was so bad, that Communist Party, Khmer Rouge, loyalists crawled out of the killing fields, fled to Vietnam
First of all, KR were literally invading VN. They considered the Mekong Delta theirs and planned to, yeah, kill everyone as usual.
They also killed the ethnic Cambodians who have fled to Cambodia to help them invade, the guys who have been originally armed by the Americans against the VC. Because, well, you know it, they were killing everyone. (They killed most of Cambodia's Chinese minority too.)
Vietnam was really bad at capitalizing (heh) on that because the very same guys (Hun Sen and friends, elderly now but still directly at power) later turned Cambodia into a Chinese colony after VN peaced out.
Cambodia more recently also had some border conflicts with Thailand.
The situation was so bad, that Communist Party, Khmer Rouge, loyalists crawled out of the killing fields, fled to Vietnam
First of all, KR were literally invading Cambodia. They considered the Mekong Delta theirs and planned to, yeah, kill everyone as usual.
They also killed the ethnic Cambodians who have fled to Cambodia to help them invade, the guys who have been originally armed by the Americans against the VC. Because, well, you know it, they were killing everyone. (They killed most of Cambodia's Chinese minority too.)
Vietnam was really bad at capitalizing (heh) on that because the very same guys (Hun Sen and friends, elderly now but still directly at power) later turned Cambodia into a Chinese colony after VN peaced out.
Cambodia more recently also had some border conflicts with Thailand.