Victory Over the Khmer Rouge - Seen From Vietnam

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Ta Lon landing-by-sea campaign – milestone in victory over Pol Pot regime
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December 26, 2018

Kien Giang (VNA) – A ceremony was held in southern Kien Giang province on December 24 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Ta Lon landing-by-sea campaign – a milestone in the victory against the Pol Pot genocidal regime in Cambodia.

After the resistance war against the US imperialists succeeded in 1975, the three Indochinese countries entered a new revolutionary period.

However, in Cambodia, the Pol Pot regime incited hostility inside the country and towards Vietnam and carried out a brutal genocidal policy. From 1975 to 1978, they imprisoned and killed millions of innocent civilians and thousands of revolutionists, attacked Phu Quoc and Tho Chu islands of Vietnam, repeatedly infiltrated Vietnam’s border, and triggered armed conflicts with Vietnam.

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Whatever happened to / Vietnam’s forgotten veterans
By: Paul Millar - Posted on: December 25, 2018 | Cambodia

On Christmas Day 40 years ago, 150,000 Vietnamese troops crossed the border into Cambodia and launched a bloody campaign to drive the murderous Khmer Rouge regime from power. Decades later, the men who fought against Pol Pot’s forces remain haunted by their memories, forgotten by their nation and distrusted by many of the Cambodians they freed.

For two weeks in April 1978, black-clad cadres from Pol Pot’s ultra-nationalist Khmer Rouge regime unleashed hell on earth. They drove whole families from their homes, gunned down men, women and children, broke babies against the brick walls of the homes that had once sheltered them. In less than a fortnight, almost 3,000 civilians in a quiet village were dead.

But this massacre – one of the worst by Pol Pot’s forces in more than four years of violent revolution – was not committed on Cambodian soil, or even against Cambodians. His forces had stolen across the border into Vietnam’s Ba Chuc commune to lay waste to a village of both ethnic Vietnamese and Khmer. It was this raid, one of a campaign of violent massacres in Vietnam that has long been overshadowed by Pol Pot’s crimes against his own people, that laid the ground for the Vietnamese assault on Cambodia that would finally drive the Khmer Rouge from power.
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Years ago, they had pictures of the aftermath at Ba Chuc. Not pretty at all.
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Meeting marks 40th anniversary of Southwest border defence war victory
Update: January, 04/2019 - 19:30

HCM CITY — A ceremony was held in HCM City yesterday to mark the 40th anniversary of the southwest border defence war victory and the valuable support given by the Vietnamese people and army to liberate Cambodia from the genocidal Pol Pot regime on Jan 7, 1979.

Huỳnh Cách Mạng, vice chairman of the city People’s Committee, said: “In response to the urgent call of the Cambodian people and the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, Vietnamese volunteers together with Cambodian armed forces and Cambodian people defeated the Pol Pot reactionary group, liberated Phnom Penh, abolished the genocidal regime, and rebuilt a new society for the Cambodian people.”

“January 7, 1979 has become a historical milestone for loyal solidarity and special friendship between Việt Nam and Cambodia, helping Cambodia escape genocide and enter a new era of independence, freedom and revival.”

“The victory demonstrated a noble international spirit and the altruistic support of the Party, State and military of Việt Nam for the Cambodian people,” he said.

With the victory, Việt Nam-Cambodia ties entered a new period of solidarity, friendship and comprehensive cooperation on the foundation of respect for each other’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, he added.

Bilateral import and export turnover between the two countries reached US$4.5 billion in 2018. They will strive to reach $5 billion by 2020.

During the past 40 years, HCM City has received hundreds of leaders of Phnom Penh to exchange, promote trade and investment in Cambodia.

Im Hen, Cambodia’s Consul General in HCM City, expressed his deep gratitude to the Party, Government, former experts and volunteer Vietnamese soldiers who have overcome many hardships to help Cambodia and its people escape from the Pol Pot genocide.

He said Cambodia’s development in many areas during the past 40 years was greatly due to the close cooperation between the Party, the State and the people of the two countries, especially the support of Việt Nam for the Cambodian people in the difficult period of the 80s and 90s as well as the period of Cambodia’s construction and development.

“The Cambodian people will also be thankful to Vietnamese volunteers who have sacrificed their blood and bodies to liberate Cambodia and its people from genocide,” he said.

“The Cambodian people will always remember January 7 as their second birthday. If there was no January 7, there would be nothing like today.”
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Kiên Giang soldiers recount a decade in Cambodia
Update: January, 07/2019 - 08:00

KIÊN GIANG — In just three years under the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, spearheaded by the Pol Pot, Cambodia was pushed to the brink of extinction with nearly three million people killed.

Not only that, shortly after the two sides of Việt Nam reunified in April 30, 1975 after 20 years of a devastating war, Pol Pot’s army waged terror in the southwestern border area of Việt Nam, committing bloody purges on innocent Vietnamese people.

On May 3, 1975, Pol Pot’s army took over the Phú Quốc Island in the Mekong Delta Province of Kiên Giang. One week later, they invaded Thổ Chu Island and massacred 500 people.

The first official fight of Kiên Giang Province against the invaders took place on June 14, 1977. It was a successful mission, Kiên Giang local forces and main army drove away the enemies in a short time but they still remained cautious of further intrusions.

After Kampuchean Khmer Rouge escalated their raids into a full-blown attack, Việt Nam responded in kind by making ally of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation in 1978, forming a resistance force that would eventually grow to overthrow the Khmer Rouge and give birth to a new Cambodia.

According to Major General Ngô Văn Dương, former deputy commander of the Military Zone 9, charged with protecting the Mekong Delta Province, who led Kiên Giang’s battalions into Cambodia during 1977-79 period, the war with Pol Pot was much more “annoying” than the war with the Americans, as the enemy’s guerrillas style turned it into a war of attrition.

One of the breakthroughs came from the sea, in the landmark Tà Lơn victory which celebrated its 40th anniversary this month, where the Việt Nam Navy from the sea off Kiên Giang conducted the first successful landing operation, paving the way for the Việt Nam Army to liberate more than 3,000sq.km of Cambodian land and the sea and island areas near Việt Nam from the control of Khmer Rouge.
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The war in Cambodia was a ’war of justice’: Vietnamese General
January, 04/2019 - 07:00
40 years ago, on January 7, 1979, the Vietnamese People’s Army in co-ordination with the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, deposed Pol Pot, putting an end to the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, liberating Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh.

Vietnam News Agency speaks to General and former defence minister Phạm Văn Trà, who served in the battle at the time, on how it was a war where “justice triumphed over brutality”.

Could you tell us about the historical context of the fight against the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime?

For one, it wasn’t until 1977 that Pol Pot started being aggressive against Việt Nam. In April of 1975 when Pol Pot ascended to the highest leadership position of Cambodia, his military frequently launched raids along the southwest border, even along the maritime border we shared with Cambodia.

The Khmer Rouge invaded Thổ Chu Island (Kiên Giang Province) and some other islands, and carried out bloody massacres of hundreds of citizens.

At this time, after the end of the resistance war against Americans, I was told to stay on at the U Minh Regiment 1 and Division 4 of Military Zone 9 and engage in the fight against Pol Pot-Ieng Sary invasions, regain control of the occupied islands and protect the border from Tịnh Biên (An Giang) to Hà Tiên (Kiên Giang).

However, by the end of 1976 when Pol Pot’s aggressions became more large-scale and frequent – some breaching as far as 15km into Vietnamese territory – the security situation in the southwest became highly volatile. These clashes were deemed to be not sporadic, unplanned incidents but conducted systematically, with comprehensive preparations.

The night of April 30, 1977, Pol Pot’s military launched a full-scale division-level attack on the Vietnamese southwestern border, starting their invasion of Việt Nam.

How did you feel upon hearing this news?

I was head of the U Minh Regiment 1 then, the timing couldn’t have been more unfortunate as our comrades were celebrating the second anniversary of Unification Day, and were in high spirits as they could finally return to their homelands after years of war.

I felt shocked and angry learning that Pol Pot’s military invaded Việt Nam. The defence ministry immediately decided to send us out to sea, to liberate the islands of Thổ Chu and Phú Quốc. 500 were killed by Pol Pot’s military on Thổ Chu alone, if the action had been delayed, the number of deaths might have been greater.

Our counter-offensive was to defend Việt Nam’s territory and people, not to attack Cambodian people. Our soldiers were committed and ready to sacrifice themselves to take back the occupied islands.
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For one, it wasn’t until 1977 that Pol Pot started being aggressive against Việt Nam.
That's not at all true. For example soon as the country was liberated in April 1975 Pol Pot launched attacks on Phuo Quoc and other islands. One in particular, Poulo Panjang had its whole population of over 500 disappear after an attack.


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Pictorial flashback: When Vietnam freed Cambodia from a genocidal regime
By Staff reporters January 8, 2019 | 02:21 pm GMT+7
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40 years ago, Vietnam launched a retaliatory attack on Khmer Rouge and succeeded, freeing Cambodia from their grasp.
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