BLUE COUP D’ETAT

out on the river with the kids, smiling, laughing, looking off into the horizon, enjoying the holiday commemorating the 1979 defeat of the khmer rouge by a vietnamese led rebels. found this on another person’s blog sweetcucumber —
1979: Vietnam forces Khmer Rouge retreat
Hundreds of Khmer Rouge troops have fled Cambodia after being crushed by Vietnamese-led rebel forces.
The capital, Phnom Penh, has been seized and Pol Pot and many of his soldiers forced to retreat into the countryside.
It signals the end of nearly four years of brutal domination by the guerrillas. (bbc)