Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan ya karɓi iko kuma ya nisanta kansa daga Vietnamese, shugaban Khmer Rouge mai goyon bayan China Pol Pot ya kashe 'yan Kambodiya miliyan 1.5 zuwa 2 a fagen kisan, kusan kashi ɗaya cikin huɗu na yawan jama'ar Kambodiya (wani abin da aka saba wa lakabi da kisan kare dangi na Kambodiya). Martin Shaw ya kwatanta waɗannan mugunta a matsayin "kisan kare dangi mafi tsabta na zamanin Cold War". Tare da goyon bayan Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, wata kungiya ta Khmer masu goyon bayan kwaminisanci da kuma Khmer Rouge masu tsere da Heng Samrin ya jagoranci, Vietnam ta mamaye Cambodia a ranar 22 ga Disamba, 1978. mamayewa
ya yi nasara wajen tsige Pol Pot, amma sabuwar jihar za ta yi gwagwarmaya don samun amincewar kasa da kasa fiye da yankin Soviet. Duk da zanga-zangar da aka yi a baya game da cin zarafin 'yancin ɗan adam na gwamnatin Pol Pot, an ba da izinin wakilan Khmer Rouge su zauna a Babban Taron Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, tare da goyon baya mai ƙarfi daga China, ƙasashen yamma, da ƙasashen membobin ASEAN. Kambodiya za ta shiga cikin yakin basasa wanda aka jagoranci daga sansanonin 'yan gudun hijirar da ke kan iyaka da Thailand. Bayan halakar Khmer Rouge, za a kawo cikas ga sake gina kasa ta Kambodiya, kuma Vietnam za ta sha wahala daga farmakin China.