Why do Cambodians still thank Vietnam for its “invasion”?

It is only the current Cambodian government that is grateful to the Vietnamese.

Most people in Cambodia still hate or even hate the Vietnamese

The Khmer Rouge: Cambodian leftist forces. When it was established in 1950, it was a branch of the Indochina Communist Party, named the Communist Party of Cambodia. In 1966, it was renamed the Democratic Party of Cambodia. From 1975 to 1979, it became the ruling party of Cambodia and established the Democratic Kampuchea regime. During its three years and eight months of rule, an estimated 400,000 to 3 million people died in Cambodia from famine, labor, disease or persecution and other abnormal causes. It is known as one of the largest man-made disasters in the 20th century.

When Cambodia was still under the Khmer Rouge under the Pol Pot regime, the current Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and many senior officials of Hun Sen’s generation in the current Cambodian government were still inconspicuous and small roles at that time. Due to the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge, people and gods have been outraged both internationally and domestically. After just over three years, this regime was on the verge of collapse. However, without the intervention of outside forces, other domestic forces were unable to overthrow the Khmer Rouge immediately. At this time, Hun Sen's wife used her relationship with the Vietnamese authorities at the time to invite troops from Vietnam to invade Cambodia, overturning the first domino of the fall of the Khmer Rouge.

There is no free lunch in the world. This time it sent troops to Cambodia, as an agreement with Hun Sen and his faction at the time, Vietnam obtained a large piece of Cambodian land represented by Phu Quoc Island (the location of the rescue command post established by Vietnam when Malaysia Airlines MH370 crashed). As a way to help Cambodia, represented by Hun Sen and others The vested interests are rewarded for overthrowing the old regime and establishing a new regime.

To this day, on Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam, the common language used by residents is still Cambodian, and all aspects of life and customs are still basically Cambodian. The other lands ceded to Vietnam are called "Lower Cambodia" by the Cambodian people, or Lower Cambodia for short. Every year, on the day when these lands are ceded, many people in Cambodia will spontaneously organize and go to the country's government agencies. , the Vietnamese Embassy, ??and other relevant places held protests and demonstrations to show that they have not forgotten the national humiliation. In the hearts of ordinary Cambodian people, Vietnam’s dispatch of troops to Cambodia was an act of invasion, and the current government is a vested interest in the war. Therefore, the Cambodian official attitude towards the war is not that it is an invasion, but a war to punish evil and promote good.