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by nuhru_1098 Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:41 pmThis Week in History
1979: KHMER ROUGE IS OVERTHROWN IN CAMBODIA
In 1979, the Communist Khmer Rouge government was overthrown by Vietnamese forces. Pol Pot's regime took power in 1975 after the corrupt Lon Nol government lost U.S. support following the U.S.A.'s defeat in Vietnam. The Khmer Rouge murdered thousands of Cambodians in their prisons. Hundreds of thousands more died from starvation and disease due to the regime's agricultural collectivisation policies.
1979: KHMER ROUGE IS OVERTHROWN IN CAMBODIA
In 1979, the Communist Khmer Rouge government was overthrown by Vietnamese forces. Pol Pot's regime took power in 1975 after the corrupt Lon Nol government lost U.S. support following the U.S.A.'s defeat in Vietnam. The Khmer Rouge murdered thousands of Cambodians in their prisons. Hundreds of thousands more died from starvation and disease due to the regime's agricultural collectivisation policies.