One hundred and twenty thousand Vietnamese troops crossed the border into Cambodia on December 25, 1978. ... The Vietnamese "harvested Cambodia like a ripe fruit". ...
The invasion and subsequent ten-year occupation of Cambodia by the Vietnamese introduced a complex tension to the country.
The Vietnamese introduced structures... these structures comprised both coercive or repressive state apparatuses and hegemonic or ideological state apparatuses. The occupying army, reaching a strength of 220,000 at its peak, served as a coercive function by its mere presence. ...
Education served as the primary mechanism of this hegemonic mission civilsatrice.
See Vietnamization
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