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Cambodia–Vietnam relations take place in the form of bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.The countries have shared a land border for the last 1,000 years and share more recent historical links through being part of the French colonial empire.
After the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and subsequent collapse of Democratic Kampuchea in 1979, the Khmer Rouge fled to the border regions of Thailand, and, with assistance from China, Pol Pot's troops managed to regroup and reorganize in forested and mountainous zones on the Thai-Cambodian border.
Operation Freedom Deal was a military campaign led by the United States Seventh Air Force, taking place in Cambodia between 19 May 1970 and 15 August 1973. Part of the larger Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War, the goal of the operation was to provide air support and interdiction in the region.
Estimates of Cambodian military and civilian deaths resulting from the 1969-1973 bombing range from 40,000 to more than 150,000. [1] [2] [3] The impact of the Khmer Rouge on the rural population was severe. Their tactics were "terror, violence, and force." [4] The civil war forced many Cambodians in the countryside to flee to the cities for safety.
Shortly afterwards, six divisions of the KRA advanced about 10 km (6.2 mi) into Tay Ninh Province, where they killed more than 1,000 Vietnamese civilians in Tân Biên district. [47] Angered by the scale of Kampuchean assaults, the PAVN assembled eight divisions, estimated at 60,000 soldiers, to launch a retaliatory strike against Kampuchea.
Site Two Refugee Camp (also known as Site II or Site 2) was the largest refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border and, for several years, the largest refugee camp in Southeast Asia. The camp was established in January 1985 during the 1984-1985 Vietnamese dry-season offensive against guerrilla forces opposing Vietnam 's occupation of Cambodia.
In Vietnam, the term Việt Kiều is used to describe Vietnamese people living abroad, though it is not commonly adopted as a term of self-identification. [81] Instead, many overseas Vietnamese also use the terms Người Việt hải ngoại ("Overseas Vietnamese"), a neutral designation, or Người Việt tự do ("Free Vietnamese"), which carries a political connotation.
[1] [6] Nuon's father, Lao Liv, worked as a trader as well as a corn farmer, while his mother, Dos Peanh, was a tailor. An interview by a Japanese researcher in 2003 with Nuon Chea quoted that Liv was Chinese, while Peanh was the daughter of a Chinese immigrant from Shantou, Guangdong and his Khmer wife. [ 7 ]