Third Indochina War

Third Indochina War
	Part of the Indochina Wars, the Cold War, and the Sino-Soviet split
Date	21 December 1978 – 23 October 1991; (12 years, 10 months and 2 days)
Location	Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, China
Result	Vietnamese victory; Collapse of the Khmer Rouge; Cambodian genocide stopped; Pro-Vietnamese government founded in Cambodia; China invaded on 17 February and withdrew from Vietnam after fighting 27 days; Vietnam withdrew troops from Cambodia in 1989; Relations between China and Vietnam normalised in 1990; Establishment of United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia; 1991 Paris Peace Accords, which recognised Cambodia's sovereignty;
Belligerents
China ; Democratic Kampuchea (until 1979/82); CGDK (after 1982) PDK; FUNCINPEC; KPNLF; Lao royalists; Hmong insurgents; FULRO; Thailand Supported by:; Malaysia; North Korea; Romania; Somalia; United Kingdom; United States National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam (1980-1987)	Vietnam; Laos; People's Republic of Kampuchea (until 1989); State of Cambodia (from 1989) Supported by:; Albania; Bulgaria; Cuba; Czechoslovakia; East Germany; Hungary; India; Poland; Soviet Union; Ethiopia (from 1987); South Yemen
Commanders and leaders
Hua Guofeng; (CCP Chairman, Premier); Deng Xiaoping; (PLA Chief of Staff); Ye Jianying; (National Congress Chairman); Xu Xiangqian; (Defense Minister); Yang Dezhi; (Commander of the Kunming Military Region); Xu Shiyou; (Commander of the Guangzhou Military Region); Pol Pot; Khieu Samphan; Ieng Sary; Son Sann; Dien Del; Norodom Sihanouk; Hoàng Cơ Minh † (1980-1987);	Lê Duẩn; Trường Chinh; Nguyễn Văn Linh; Võ Nguyên Giáp; Văn Tiến Dũng; Lê Đức Anh; Vũ Lập; Đàm Quang Trung; Heng Samrin; Hun Sen; Chea Sim; Pen Sovan; Chan Sy;
Casualties and losses
	Vietnam: 105,627 military deaths China and its allies: ~1,000,000 casualties

The Third Indochina War was a period of multiple wars and conflicts involve Vietnam, China, the Khmer Rouge (now Cambodia), Laos and Thailand just three years after the Vietnam War ended. The war started on 21 December 1978 when Vietnamese troops entered the Khmer Rouge, at the time was under Pol Pot's dictatorship after the Ba Chúc massacre which was committed by the Cambodian army and many others who were also killed. After a long time, the Khmer Rouge government collapsed on 7 January 1979 and Cambodia was under Vietnamese control. China later invaded Vietnam in the north to disrupt them from the war in Cambodia. The war officially ended on 23 October 1991 under the Paris Peace Accords of 1991.

List of wars

References

↑ "Outside Interference in Vietnamese Affairs Condemned" (PDF). www.cambodiatokampuchea.wordpress.com. 20 July 1978.
↑ "UNTAC in Cambodia – from Occupation, Civil War and Genocide to Peace - The Paris Peace Conference in 1989" (PDF). Retrieved 31 March 2018.
↑ "Cambodia - 20 years on from the Paris Peace Agreements". OHCHR. 21 October 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
↑ "OHCHR | Cambodia - 20 years on from the Paris Peace Agreements". www.ohchr.org. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
↑ "UNTAC in Cambodia – from Occupation, Civil War and Genocide to Peace - The Paris Peace Conference in 1989" (PDF).
↑ Chuyên đề 4 CÔNG TÁC TÌM KIẾM, QUY TẬP HÀI CỐT LIỆT SĨ TỪ NAY ĐẾN NĂM 2020 VÀ NHỮNG NĂM TIẾP THEO, datafile.chinhsachquandoi.gov.vn/Quản%20lý%20chỉ%20đạo/Chuyên%20đề%204.doc

[1] "Outside Interference in Vietnamese Affairs Condemned" (PDF). www.cambodiatokampuchea.wordpress.com. 20 July 1978.

[max-2] "UNTAC in Cambodia – from Occupation, Civil War and Genocide to Peace - The Paris Peace Conference in 1989" (PDF). Retrieved 31 March 2018.

[OHCHR-3] "Cambodia - 20 years on from the Paris Peace Agreements". OHCHR. 21 October 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2018.

[4] "OHCHR | Cambodia - 20 years on from the Paris Peace Agreements". www.ohchr.org. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[5] "UNTAC in Cambodia – from Occupation, Civil War and Genocide to Peace - The Paris Peace Conference in 1989" (PDF).

[6] Chuyên đề 4 CÔNG TÁC TÌM KIẾM, QUY TẬP HÀI CỐT LIỆT SĨ TỪ NAY ĐẾN NĂM 2020 VÀ NHỮNG NĂM TIẾP THEO, datafile.chinhsachquandoi.gov.vn/Quản%20lý%20chỉ%20đạo/Chuyên%20đề%204.doc

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