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dangermows

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Reading more about the atrocities in Cambodia and cant quite understand how or why they were able to get into such a position of power. How comes such a fruit loop regime was backed by the likes of China and Northern Vietnam?
 


Hardline communists (in origin at least) who formed as an offshoot of the Vietnamese People's Army. Not too much surprise that Vietnam, in particular, supported them, given that fact. Likewise, the Chinese... their government at the time were hardly the strongest advocates of human rights.
 
Reading more about the atrocities in Cambodia and cant quite understand how or why they were able to get into such a position of power. How comes such a fruit loop regime was backed by the likes of China and Northern Vietnam?

During the cold war the superpowers would endorse literally anyone who identified as broadly on their side of the political fence and/or served their short term purpose.

Just like now, except now no one gives a fuck about the ideological aspects
 

Not from the majority of what Ive read like. (although some were arguing that)

Hardline communists (in origin at least) who formed as an offshoot of the Vietnamese People's Army. Not too much surprise that Vietnam, in particular, supported them, given that fact. Likewise, the Chinese... their government at the time were hardly the strongest advocates of human rights.

But then Vietnam piled in to fight?
 
During the cold war the superpowers would endorse literally anyone who identified as broadly on their side of the political fence and/or served their short term purpose.

Just like now, except now no one gives a fuck about the ideological aspects

Fair one. But loads of Cambodians fought for them apparently them in order for them to take control. (Not sure I can believe that as reported, many didnt realise what or who they were actually fighting for)

Behave man they completely destabilised the country

Im only reporting back what I have been reading. (Goes off to find some quotes....)
 
It's worth noting that, whilst the Khmer Rouge are no more, their sister group, the Moulin Rouge, still have a power base in Paris.

Ah right, so they sided with them, got into power with the help of them, then turned on them?

Alliance against the great Satan that is the USA. The enemy of my enemy and all that...
 
Some historians have cited the U.S. intervention and bombing campaign (spanning 1965–1973) as a significant factor leading to increased support of the Khmer Rouge among the Cambodian peasantry.[41] However, Pol Pot biographer David P. Chandler argues that the bombing "had the effect the Americans wanted – it broke the Communist encirclement of Phnom Penh".[42][43] Peter Rodman and Michael Lind claimed that the US intervention saved Cambodia from collapse in 1970 and 1973.[44][45] Craig Etcheson agreed that it was "untenable" to assert that US intervention caused the Khmer Rouge victory while acknowledging that it may have played a small role in boosting recruitment for the insurgents.[46] William Shawcross, however, wrote that the US bombing and ground incursion plunged Cambodia into the chaos that Sihanouk had worked for years to avoid.[47]
 
Some historians have cited the U.S. intervention and bombing campaign (spanning 1965–1973) as a significant factor leading to increased support of the Khmer Rouge among the Cambodian peasantry.[41] However, Pol Pot biographer David P. Chandler argues that the bombing "had the effect the Americans wanted – it broke the Communist encirclement of Phnom Penh".[42][43] Peter Rodman and Michael Lind claimed that the US intervention saved Cambodia from collapse in 1970 and 1973.[44][45] Craig Etcheson agreed that it was "untenable" to assert that US intervention caused the Khmer Rouge victory while acknowledging that it may have played a small role in boosting recruitment for the insurgents.[46] William Shawcross, however, wrote that the US bombing and ground incursion plunged Cambodia into the chaos that Sihanouk had worked for years to avoid.[47]


I did say it in one word pal

Things changed once they were in power. The war with Vietnam was initially caused by the Khmer Rouge and their paranoia over Vietnam wanting to dominate the region.
The war in Vietnam was an oil war. Instigated by the usa pure and simple
 
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