Instead, the country was consumed by its own civil war between the Lon Nol government and the rapidly growing Khmer Rouge.

Source: https://original.antiwar.com/eisenberg/2023/09/19/the-bombs-of-august-remembering-neak-luong-1973/

Kunthear Mam-Douglas of University Park traveled to her birth country, Cambodia, last year to retrace the journey her family and many others took to escape after the Khmer Rouge regime seized power in the 1970s.

Source: https://www.peoplenewspapers.com/2023/12/27/favorites-of-2023-kunthear-mam-douglas-retraces-her-escape/

That ''incursion,'' as Nixon and Kissinger called it, was blamed by some for contributing to Cambodia's fall into the hands of Khmer Rouge insurgents who later slaughtered some 2 million Cambodians.

Source: https://m.startribune.com/henry-kissinger-secretary-of-state-under-presidents-nixon-and-ford-dies-at-100/600323289/

That’s what they do in North Korea today and that’s what life was reduced to under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Source: https://spectator.org/john-lennon-no-model-to-emulate/

The site in Kratie province was an ammunition warehouse during the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s before being turned into a school.

Source: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/world-news/2023/08/14/thousands-of-pieces-of-unexploded-ordnance-found-buried-at-cambodian-school/

While the Left prettied up the Khmer Rouge, the Nixon administration issued prescient warnings.

Source: https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/rich-lowry-no-henry-kissinger-was-not-a-war-criminal/article_f730c2c2-90d1-11ee-b8a1-c7567c870704.html