WHY VIETNAM INVADED CAMBODIA: Political Culture and the Causes of War (Stephen J. Morris, Stanford University Press, 1999)
Chap. 1 - Roots of a Conflict: The Vietnamese Communists and the Cambodians, 1930-70
...between 1870 and 1914, several Cambodian regions were handed over to
the colonial administrative entities into which Vietnam had been
divided. In some cases, such as that of the current Vietnamese
province of Tay Ninh, these were areas that were almost totally
populated by Cambodians and administered by Cambodians. ...a series of
treaties signed...without the consent of the Cambodian king.
...Vietnamese had returned to Cambodia...as administrators... Vietnamese
also came as immigrants to Cambodia, taking over much of the
commerce... At the end of World War II, the Cambodian capital, Phnom
Penh, was primarily a non-Khmer city. ...the Vietnamese migrants to
rural communities were usually family units and remained culturally
unassimilated...
My eyes and and my heart are bleeding inside out while reading everything about the Vietnamization of Cambodia here on T2P Media. Keep it coming please, Ms. Theary! I will be forever indebted to you just as Hun Sen had been and will be to the Viet...
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I, too, feel privileged to have learned and understood so far about the Vietnamization of Cambodia, Ms. Theary Seng!. And, yes, I like to learn, and know more about it....Thanks a million for everything!
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