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=Invasion of Cambodia=

There has been an invasion of Cambodia twice in recent history. The first time was in the 1970s' by American and South Vietnamese troops during the Vietnam War, and the second was by Vietnamese forces in 1978-79. While they were close together in time-they both occurred within the same decade and these two event had very different outcomes for the Cambodian people. Cambodia officially had a policy at relation to the Vietnam War, but nonetheless there were North Vietnamese based in Cambodia during the conflict. It was 1970 that the invasion by American and South Vietnamese ground force occurred. The crossed the border in the hopes of defeating an estimated 40,000 North Vietnamese troops and capturing their headquarters, but in the end neither of these objectives were met, as both the enemy forces and their headquarters proved to be elusive. There are no firm statistics on how many Cambodians lost their lives as a result of the Khmer Rouge regime, but estimated put the death toll from executions, starvation and disease at more than 1 million people out of a population of just 7.3 million.