Tag: Pol Pot

• Know Your History: Christmas Invasion of Cambodia, 1978

  The beginning of the end of the dark periods of modern history began on December 25, 1978, when a sure-footed, well-oiled, Vietnamese fighting machine crossed the border, heading straight towards the nearly deserted Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. The ramifications and irony of such an invasion were lost on many people at that time, and…

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  December 28, 2014

  History & Culture, Vietnam

  1978, cambodia, Christmas battles, History, khmer rouge, Killing Fields, phnom penh, Pol Pot, southeast asia, Vietnam