Paris Peace Accords 23 Oct. 1991

Saturday, March 14, 2015

[Vietnamization] Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia -- "Vietnamese political elites have always despised all Cambodians"




WHY VIETNAM INVADED CAMBODIA: Political Culture and the Causes of War (Stephen J. Morris, Stanford University Press, 1999)

Introduction

...We may crudely summarize the salient aspects of traditional Vietnamese and Cambodian cultures...Vietnamese political elites have always despised all Cambodians, and Cambodian political elites have always deeply resented all Vietnamese.


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