cambodia vs. vietnam

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

anyone know what happened? let me know. I also want to know who you would suport in this battle.

[Karl Marx's Camel]

In late 1978, following repeated raids by the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia into Vietnamese territory, Vietnam sent troops to overthrow Pol Pot. The pro-Vietnamese People's Republic of Kampuchea was created with Heng Samrin as Chairman. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge allied with non-Communist guerilla forces led by Norodom Sihanouk and Son Sann to fight against the Vietnamese forces and the new Phnom Penh regime. Some high ranking officials of the Heng Samrin regime in early 1980s resisted Vietnamese control, resulting in a purge that removed Pen Sovan, Prime Minister and Secretary General of the Cambodian People's Revolutionary Party. The war lasted until 1989 when Vietnam withdrew its troops and handed the administration of Cambodia to the United Nations. The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, on a positive note, helped stop the genocide of millions of Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge to carry out Pol Pot's version of Communism.

wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Vietnam#After_1975_-_period_of_socialism)

See also:

Cambodian Vietnamese War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian-Vietnamese_War)

Cambodia under Vietnamese Occupation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Kampuchea)

The war indirectly led to the Sino-Vietnamese War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War)

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

thanx

[Severian]

The subject's been discussed before:
In this thread for example. (http://www.revleft.com/index.php?showtopic=32040&st=20)

[Janus]

Introductory material has already been presented above.


I also want to know who you would suport in this battle.
Neither, although Vietnam did claim humanitarianism as one of their reasons for the intervention, they were obviously more focused on their own national interests which would've benefited from a pro-Vietnam leadership in Cambodia.