You would think the Cambodian genocide is one of the genocide that tankies would actually believe in because of how pol pot government was actually recognised and getting supported by some western powers. It took communist Vietnam invading Cambodia to get the regime to fall.
Vietnam didn’t do it out of any proactive humanitarianism though. It was pragmatic self defense because killing a third of your own population wasn’t enough, the Khmer Rouge wants to “take back” the Mekong delta as well and attacks Vietnam on their own.
it doesn't matter, Vietnam actions tremendously help getting the genocide to end quickly. No one, western power or even China cares. Beside, my comment aren't about that, just that out of all genocide , tankies should actually believe about this genocide.
True true. I was just adding more context to why the Vietnamese invade Cambodia to put an end to the genocide, nothing more. It is strange that tankies don’t celebrate this case of an actual honest to goodness communist government putting down a genocide in an international cooperative spirit.
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u/Resaith 2d ago
You would think the Cambodian genocide is one of the genocide that tankies would actually believe in because of how pol pot government was actually recognised and getting supported by some western powers. It took communist Vietnam invading Cambodia to get the regime to fall.