Cambodian Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-07

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00:03:21 1 Setting the stage (1965–1970)
00:03:33 1.1 Background
00:06:31 1.2 Revolt in Battambang
00:08:51 1.3 Communist regroupment
00:11:25 1.4 Operation iMenu/i and Operation iFreedom Deal/i
00:15:44 2 Overthrow of Sihanouk (1970)
00:15:56 2.1 Lon Nol coup
00:18:29 2.2 Massacre of the Vietnamese
00:20:07 2.3 FUNK and GRUNK
00:25:23 3 Widening war (1970–1971)
00:25:35 3.1 North Vietnamese offensive in Cambodia
00:28:20 3.2 Opposing sides
00:33:53 3.3 iChenla II/i
00:35:45 4 Agony of the Khmer Republic (1972–1975)
00:35:58 4.1 Struggling to survive
00:40:00 4.2 Shape of things to come
00:44:22 4.3 Fall of Phnom Penh
00:49:51 5 Causes of death
00:50:31 6 War crimes
00:50:40 6.1 Atrocities
00:52:10 6.2 Use of children
00:52:50 7 See also



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The Cambodian Civil War (Khmer: សង្គ្រាមស៊ីវិលកម្ពុជា) was a military conflict that pitted the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge) and their allies the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the Viet Cong against the government forces of the Kingdom of Cambodia and, after October 1970, the Khmer Republic, which were supported by the United States (U.S.) and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam).
The struggle was complicated by the influence and actions of the allies of the two warring sides. North Vietnam's People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) involvement was designed to protect its Base Areas and sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia, without which the prosecution of its military effort in South Vietnam would have been more difficult.  The Cambodian coup of 18 March 1970 put a pro-American, anti-North Vietnamese government in power and ended Cambodia's neutrality in the Vietnam War. The PAVN was now threatened by a newly unfriendly Cambodian government.
Between March and June 1970, the North Vietnamese moved many of its military installations further inside Cambodia in response to the coup and the establishment of a pro-American government, capturing most of the northeastern third of the country in engagements with the Cambodian army.  The North Vietnamese turned over some of their conquests and provided other assistance to the Khmer Rouge, thus empowering what was at the time a small guerilla movement.  The Cambodian government hastened to expand its army to combat the North Vietnamese and the growing power of the Khmer Rouge.The U.S. was motivated by the desire to buy time for its withdrawal from Southeast Asia, to protect its ally in South Vietnam, and to prevent the spread of communism to Cambodia. American and both South and North Vietnamese forces directly participated (at one time or another) in the fighting. The U.S. assisted the central government with massive U.S. aerial bombing campaigns and direct material and financial aid.
After five years of savage fighting, the Republican government was defeated on 17 April 1975 when the victorious Khmer Rouge proclaimed the establishment of Democratic Kampuchea. The war caused a refugee crisis in Cambodia with two million people—more than 25 percent of the population—displaced from rural areas into the cities, especially Phnom Penh which grew from about 600,000 in 1970 to an estimated population of nearly 2 million by 1975.
Children were widely used during and after the war, often being persuaded or forced to commit atrocities. The Cambodian government estimated that more than 20 percent of the property in the country had been destroyed during the war. In total, an estimated 275,000–310,000 people were killed as a result of the war.
The conflict was part of the Second Indochina War (1955–1975) which also consumed the neighboring Kingdom of Laos, South Vietnam, and North Vietnam individually r ...