Duk da haka, a ranar 18 ga Maris, 1970, Lon Nol ya yi watsi da cewa firaministan kasar Sihanouk da ofishin jakadancin Viet Cong sun yi watsi da su. A cikin rashi na yarima, Lon Nol bai yi wani abu ba don dakatar da wadannan ayyukan. A ranar 12 ga Maris, firaministan kasar ya rufe tashar jiragen ruwa na Sihanoukville zuwa Arewacin Vietnam kuma ya ba da wata hujja mai ban mamaki ga su. Duk sojojin PAVN / Viet Cong sun janye daga kasar Kambodiya a cikin sa'o'i 72 (a ranar 15 ga Maris) ko kuma fuskantar aikin soja. Sihanouk, da jin labarin tashin hankali, ya tafi Moscow da Beijing don neman magoya bayan PAVN da Cong na neman karin iko a kan su.
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