Paris Peace Accords 23 Oct. 1991

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

[Vietnamization] Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia - "Hun Sen's political endurance ensured a continuing Vietnamese influence over Cambodia."




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



Chapter 9: The Consequences of the Vietnamese Invasion

DIMENSIONS OF VIETNAMESE COLONIZATION OF CAMBODIA

...second...arrival from 1979 onwards of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese civilians. ...Khmers had to share their land with the Vietnamese civilians ...each rural commune was obliged to receive a certain number of Vietnamese families. ...Vietnamese army conscripted Cambodian civilians as corvee labor on military projects [K-5]...

...their client communist party, led by Hun Sen, was able to retain power in the country for many years. ...Hun Sen's political endurance ensured a continuing Vietnamese influence over Cambodia.



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