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Nor did they entire Cambodian population do the fighting. They were in no position to carry arms. Hence only a small number of KR soldiers did the fighting and according to Dr David Chandler, a rputable Indochinese historian, they fought bravery despite being vastly outnumbered and outgunned.
But the Cambodian civilians did help the Khmer Rouge. Participating in a war doesn't mean you have to fight. There are many types of soldiers who in wars don't fight, such as transport drivers, combat medics etc.
Considering that guerrilla warfare cannot take off without help from civilians then it is safe to say Khmer civilians did participate by helping the Khmer Rouge.
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Dr David Chandler, a rputable Indochinese historian, they fought bravery despite being vastly outnumbered and outgunned.
Fought bravely? lol yeah if running away and losing your country in a mere 2 weeks is considered brave.
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Dude read on with Chinese and Cambodian history but make sure it's not written by your comerades in Hanoi. China at the time was in no position to supply war planes, fuel or heavy weapons
Yes this site is a Hanoi commie site.
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China supplied 16 F-6Cs to the Khmer Rouge Air Force between 1975 and 1978. This particular aircraft survived the Vietnamese invasion in 1978, as well as the long war in the 1980s, and can today be seen in storage at the Army Museum in Phnom Penh. (Artwork by Tom Cooper)
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I'll laugh at that one, too. The KR had some Chinese military advisors, not an army of fighters. Get your facts right thumbsdown.gif
This shows you aren't very knowledgable. In 1979, China made good on it's defense pact with Cambodia, and launched the Sino-Vietnam war hoping they can make Vietnam leave Cambodia.
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Today it's still a buyer of modern warplanes and weapons, not a supplier (in case you didn't know China is still lobbying the EU to life its arms embargo imposed since the Tianamin massacre).
You tell me to brush up on my history, but you obviously don't know history. China has made fighter planes like Migs since that time period. You don't even have to make something to give it to another country. You can just take things you got from another country and then give it to a 3rd country.
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They US ONLY provided diplomatic support. That's why the KR still had a seat at the UN. The Thai only started to supply the KR once they've regrouped at the border.
Yeah tell that to the Khmer Rouge who got $85 million from the US after they were removed from power.
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By January 1980, the US was secretly funding Pol Pots exiled forces on the Thai border. The extent of this support-$85 million from 1980 to 1986-was revealed six years later in correspondence between congressional lawyer Jonathan Winer...
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Fact: Your paymaster in Moscow stopped subsidising you. No more money and no more weapons. Cuban sugar alone could no sustain your losses in the jungles of Cambodia which have become your grave yards, according to David Chandler 200,000+ is a conservative figure. No US embargo bled you white. Your comerades Cuba (your sugar supplier) and North Korea are still standing strong with or without US embargo.
Yeah that's rich. There are many levels of embargos. And Vietnam got the worst one. Even worse than what Cuba got.
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In classifying Vietnam a "Category Z" country, Washington imposed sanctions more isolating than even those against Cuba. The World Bank was warned off and humanitarian aid was stopped or obstructed; the new British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, persuaded the EU to halt shipments of milk to Vietnamese children. The American objective was to continue the war by other means
Vietnam got embargo from American allies like the EU as well, not just America.
Vietnam just promised to withdraw their troops in exchange for restabilishing diplomatic ties after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Fact is Vietnam won purely because their OBJECTIVES FOR THE WAR WERE MET.
Vietnam entered the war to overthrow the Khmer Rouge who were attacking Vietnam's borders.
That is mission accomplish as the Khmer Rouge never came back to power in Cambodia.
Vietnam's puppet Hun Sen still rules today.
The Khmer Rouge lost the war because their objectives of ruling Cambodia again never happened.
And I'll leave you with this tidbit.
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_411.shtmlBy mid-March 1979, the Vietnamese were in control of all the major towns and cities in Cambodia and about to install a puppet regime in Phnom Penh. However, despite brilliant planning and opportunities, they eventually failed to use every single opportunity to maul the Khmer Rouge and destroy its combat capability: instead they allowed a considerable number to retreat to their traditional strongholds in the Cardamom Mountains.
It remains unclear how could this happen, but many observers concluded that this was an excellent reason for Hanoi to justify the continued presence of her troops in Cambodia.It seems like Vietnam could have destroyed the Khmer Rouge from the very start but let many of them to escape so they can claim to the world that the Khmer Rouge still existed so they can continue to stay in Cambodia.

Of course the Khmer Rouge, Vietnam escaped were so badly beaten that if it wasn't for Thailand they would have collapsed.
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/thailand_response.htmlAfter their overthrow in early 1979, the Khmer Rouge soldiers came to the Thai border in severe condition. They were in a state of famine. Many had been wounded and soon died. But they soon found a new lifeline for a revival and strengthening of their forces on an old enemy’s soil. The new alliance with Thailand offered the Maoist forces three main sources of income: Chinese arms supplies, aid relief supplies, and illegal business with the Thais.
Without Thailand’s cooperation, the guerilla forces of Pol Pot would thus have been finished by the Vietnamese-PRK forces soon after their overthrow.That's the only mistake I think Vietnam made was to let some of the Khmer Rouge escape, so they can tell the world that they should stay in Cambodia to provide security. I guess Vietnam didn't calculate properly that Thailand would probably help these battered Khmer Rouge while they were running away like cowards, to come back and create an insurgency in Cambodia like what the Iraq Insurgency is doing to the US.
But nevertheless the Khmer Rouge still failed and practically no longer exists at the end of the 1990's.