My girlfriends who is half Vietnamese /Cambodian her father being Vietnamese obviously did some good in Cambodia ,I found this certificate covered in rat shit when looking for something at her home , I dusted it off cleaned it up ,I think its now sitting outside under the house with all the other shit they don't want or care about. I presume because she cannot read it, it is insignificant . To me its a shame to have a piece of your fathers well doings discarded,many times I have rescued it from being burnt.
I was some what honored to have found this never meeting her father as he has passed away before I came on the seen.

Vietnam and Cambodia celebrate 42 years since defeat of Pol Pot regime
Jan, 2021
VIETNAM and Cambodia celebrated 42 years since the defeat of the Western-backed Pol Pot regime on Thursday in a joint ceremony.

Cambodian Consulate General Sok Dareth expressed profound gratitude to the Vietnamese Communist Party at the Ho Chi Minh City commemoration for their efforts in helping the country “escape from the genocidal regime.”

Quoting Cambodian Prime Minister HE, he said “thanks to Vietnam, Cambodia could build up its armed forces and liberate the people and the country has the best friend that is Vietnam.”

The two nations have strong bilateral relations and recently signed an agreement regarding land border demarcation while supporting each other at regional and international forums to co-operate in developing their economies.

President of the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Association Truong Minh Nhut said that the defeat of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge on January 7 1979 was “the manifestation of pure international solidarity and the special friendship between the Vietnamese and Cambodian peoples.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article ... pot-regime

7 January; Victory Day 2022

January 7, 2022
Orphans vividly recall liberation from 43 Khmer Rouge years ago
It was in late 1978 when the father of Norng Chanphal, who was turning nine-years-old, was arrested by the Khmer Rouge and taken to the infamous Tuol Sleng prison known as S-21 in Phnom Penh.

“My father worked in a sawmill in Kampong Speu province and he was implicated by another prisoner who was being tortured at Tuol Sleng in a crime of treason against the Khmer Rouge,” he says.

Days after his father had been taken away, Chanphal says he, his mother and a younger brother were told to come to meet his father at the railway station in Phnom Penh.

“I was happy, because I thought that we would have good food to eat and ice water to drink in the city,” he says.

He was wrong. As they approached Phnom Penh, they were all destined for Tuol Sleng prison where they were expected to meet the same fate as his father, who had already been executed many days before they arrived there.

As the Cambodian and Vietnamese liberation army was advancing toward the capital before January 7, 1979, Chanphal says the Khmer Rouge executioners hurriedly took the remaining prisoners to the Choeung Ek Killing Field south of Phnom Penh to be “smashed”.

“As she was leaving, my mother cried and told me to look after my younger brother,” he recalls, bringing a lump to his throat. “Then, I, my brother and three other children went into hiding in the pile of the prisoners’ bloody clothes near the kitchen.”

“At night, we crawled out and felt our way to the kitchen to find pig feed to eat,” he remembers, as the sound of artillery guns could be heard louder and louder in the distance.

When the liberating troops broke into the prison, Chanphal says the children crawled out from their hiding place to meet them.

“Unfortunately, a small child had died from suffocation due to the stink of the clothes and the heat from the kitchen,” he says, adding that the children were later sent to live in an orphanage a stone’s throw from S-21.

Chanphal, now 52-years-old, works as an informal guide at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, where at least 12,000 prisoners were tortured and killed. He also sells his own memoir to local visitors and foreign tourists who come to see and listen to the stories of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge more than four decades ago.

As Cambodia marks the 43rd anniversary of the downfall of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh, Chanphal says he thanks both the Cambodian and Vietnamese troops for liberating Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge.

“If they had not come in time, we would surely have been killed,” he says. “I would like to tell the truth from a child’s perspective regardless of the interpretation of (disputing) politicians.”
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501002570/ ... years-ago/

Doc67 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 10:23 pm Wasn't HE one of them before he fucked off to Vietnam?

Not just a regular soldier either, he helped give "orders" to his own lot of troops.

The most bizarre part of the whole thing was that Vietnam was roundly condemned by most other countries. Also, China even invaded northern Vietnam.

Also, from wikipedia:

When the Vietnamese leaders launched their invasion of Kampuchea to remove the Khmer Rouge government in 1978, they did not expect a negative reaction from the international community. However, the events that followed the invasion showed that they had severely miscalculated international sympathies toward their cause. Instead of backing Vietnam, most United Nations member countries denounced the Vietnamese use of force against Kampuchea, and even moved to revive the battered Khmer Rouge organisation that had once governed the country with such brutality.

Thus, Kampuchea became more than just a military problem for Vietnam, quickly evolving into an economic and diplomatic problem in the international arena. Throughout the decade in which Vietnam occupied neighbouring Kampuchea, the Vietnamese Government, and the PRK government which it installed, were placed on the periphery of the international community.

And don't forget the Concerts for Kampuchea, organized by Paul McCartney and Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981.