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Then [[The Vietnam War]] came. Officialy, Cambodia was neutral, even though its sympathies were with the communists. This and the fact that some Vietcong forces along with the communist guerrillas of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge, sheltered in Cambodian soil prompted the United States to support a coup led by General Lon Nol, hastening the falling of the country into a civil war. And just to add insult to injury, the States decided to bomb Cambodia without warning to catch the communists unaware. They did, but they also caught the Cambodians and the US representatives in Cambodia off-guard.
 
[[It Got Worse|The civil war ended in 1975 with the victory of the Khmer Rouge and their leader,]] [[Pol Pot]]. They renamed the country [[PeoplesPeople's Republic of Tyranny|Democratic Kampuchea]] and decided to [[Moral Event Horizon|move the population to the countryside on forced marches]], on an attempt of [[Year Zero|starting from zero]] the nation. The harsh conditions, forced works and famine caused thousands of deaths. The Khmer Rouge also destroyed anything considered Western, including libraries and temples, and started to persecute ethnic and religious minorities (Chinese, Vietnamese, Buddhist monks, Muslims, Catholics), anyone with a connection with the old regime or international agencies and anyone considered an intellectual (usually that meant anyone who used to work at libraries, universities or hospitals, or anyone who wore ''eyeglasses''). Their motto was "To keep you is no benefit; to destroy you is no loss." Pol Pot's regime led to the death of around 2 million people out of a population of 8 million.
 
In 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia, got rid of the Khmer Rouge and put a puppet state in its place, the People’s Republic of Kampuchea, while the Khmer Rouge controlled much of the country and, eventually, [[Gambit Pileup|a third faction]] of royalists called Khmer People’s National Liberation Front appeared on the scene. This civil war continued until 1991, when an agreement between the parts could be achieved.
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