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Bombing of Vietnamese Communist
The supposed targets were sanctuaries and Base Areas of the People's Army of Vietnam and forces of the National Front of the Liberation of South Vietnam which ultilized them for resupply, training, and resting between campaigns across the border in the Republic of Vietnam. https://piazzadcara.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/mar-18-1969-u-s-bombs-cambodia-for-the-first-time-vietnam-war/ -
Khmer Rouge War
The Khmer troops capture Phnom Penh and government forces surrender. It had been ranging since March 1970, when Lt. Gen. Lon Nol had ousted Prince Norodom. During five years of fighting, 10 percent of Cambodia's 7 million died. Both the Cambodians and South Vietnamese found themselves fighting the communists alone. They call it the "killing fields." Thousands of Cambodians were murdered or died from exhaustion, hunger, and dise ase. My father was there for four years and became refugee. -
Vietnamese Invasion
Vietnamese armed forces invaded Cambodia nearly 13 years. The Khmer Rouge demanded that Vietnam return historically disputed lands and leveled allegatios that Hanoi was plotting to divide Cambodia. Cross border raids by poorly equipped Khmer Rouge forces into Vietnam and atrocited committed against ethnic Vietnamese living Cambodia worsened the situation between the two countries. -
Vietnamese Occupying Phnom Penh
Vietnamese trrops seize the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, regime by Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge. The U.S. had withdrawn its troops from Vietnam. Pol Pots experiment to create agrarian Utopia inspire in part of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolutiokn which witnessed first hand during a visit to Communist China. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/cambodia/history-vietnam.htm -
Pol Pot's Jungle Trial
The Khmer Rouge stages an eerie show trial of Pol Pot and invited Nate Thayer to review for witness and film the proceedings. The Khmer Rouge faction that was disowning him broadcast a plea to be accepted as "a liberal democratic regime. http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/07/29/jungle-trial-left-pol-pot-anguished/7ed65dc0-754e-4dbc-b864-dd41b372a6aa/ -
Pol Pot's Death
Pol Pot died. THe Khmer Rouge said he had died in his sleep, but they refused to conduct an autopsy and cremated his body. Apparently natural causes while serving a life sentence imposed against him by his own Khmer Rouge. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/17/world/death-pol-pot-pol-pot-brutal-dictator-who-forced-cambodians-killing-fields-dies.html?pagewanted=all -
Khmer Rouge Leader, Ta Mok
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has informed the U.S. Ambassador in Phnom Penh that former Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok was captured along the Thai Cambodian border. He has been transported to Phnom Penh where he is now being held by military/judicial authorities. The United States urges that the Cambodian Government take all steps to bring Ta Mok to justice in the shortest possible time. -
Khieu Samphan Arrested
The former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan, who was taken from a hospital here and arrested. He targeted by prosecutors in advance of trials expected next year for the atrocities. He was charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/world/asia/20cambo.html?_r=0 -
Facing Trials
Duch is first of Pol Pot's cadres to face trial , charged with crimes against humanity for his as chief of the S-21 torture centre where at least 14,000 people were killed. Of the thousands who entered Tuol Sleng only twelve are known to have survived. http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1879869,00.html -
Over of Khmer Rouge
The tibunal is seeking jsutice for an estimated 1.7 million people who died form torture, starvation, exhaustion or lack of medical care during the Khmer Rouge's rule in the 1970's. Nobody have not heard from the Khmer Rouge ever again. UN tribunal sentence Duch to life in prison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge_Tribunal
