Because the United States made virtually no provision for the security of its friends and collaborators, millions of people accused of being American sympathizers were killed, imprisoned or compelled to flee as the North Vietnamese took power in South Vietnam, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the Pathet Lao in Laos.
In an effort to explain what happened inside Tuol Sleng (then known by the code name S-21), David Chandler, the preeminent historian of Cambodia, spent years examining the voluminous archives discovered in the compound when the Vietnamese seized power in Cambodia in 1979.
He thought we could wage a low-key, limited war in Vietnam la Korea: leave the North Vietnamese in power in the North, and fight to save only the South.
As the Vietnamese exercised power in the capital of Phnom Penh through Hun Sen, a one-eyed Khmer Rouge defector, the remaining Khmer Rouge commanders retired to the mountains, where they grew fat off illegal mining and logging.
Continuing until 30 September, the renewed offensive lacked the scale of the previous attacks and again resulted in heavy communist casualties, failing to produce lasting military gains and contributing to an overall decline in Viet Cong and North Vietnamese combat power in the south.
Divorce was only allowed by presidential decree, but that ended the power Vietnamese men had held to shed their wives on a whim.
As the first anniversary of Katrina approached, MQVN became a force to be reckoned with, and it soon launched a community development corporation to further advance its rebuilding plans, as well as to expand Vietnamese American political power in New Orleans.
The Cambodian coup of March 18 , 1970put a pro-American, anti-Vietnamese government in power and ended Cambodia's neutrality in the Vietnam War.
Mr Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP), in power since Vietnamese troops threw out Pol Pot's Khmers Rouges nearly a quarter of a century ago, romped to a landslide victory.
