(Wu Wu, the twelfth lunar month, the ninth day), January 7, 1979, the Vietnamese military occupation of Cambodia. The Vietnam army


tanks rolled into Phnom Penh on January 7, 2011
1979. In support of rebels in Cambodia, the Vietnamese army occupied the capital, Phnom Penh, to overthrow the pro-Chinese Khmer Rouge government of Prime Minister Lon Nol.
occupied the Cambodian capital one day, Radio Hanoi announced, a group calling itself the the Cambodian National Salvation united front organization set up a committee headed by Heng Samrin rule this country. However, the newspaper is just control of the southeastern region of Cambodia. Seems that Cambodia may fall into a long-term guerrilla war. The analysts of
Hanoi war launched in late 1977, its purpose is to overthrow the Lon Nol government. The government in 1975 under the support of the Communist Party seized power from the hands of the right-wing government supported by the United States. The Lon Nol Then formed an alliance with China.