Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |2/03/2016/#5| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP

Khmer Hot News | Sam Rainsy |2/03/2016/#5| Khmer News | Cambodia News | RFA, Khmer Krom, CNRP Thus, before the KR’s takeover of Phnom Penh in 1975 and the start of the Zero Years, Cambodia had already been involved in the Third Indochina War and tensions between Cambodia and Vietnam were growing being differences in communist ideology and the incursion of Vietnamese military presence within Cambodian borders. The context of war destabilised the country and displaced Cambodians while making available to the KR the weapons of war. The KR leveraged on the devastation caused separately war to recruit members and used this past violence to justify the similarly – save more – violent and radical policies of the regime.[3]