I swear, this timeline is fucked up beyond human comprehension
SublightMonster on
When someone asked why Vietnam didn’t ask the UN to mediate in their conflicts, they said “We’ve gone to war with a majority of the permanent security council, and beaten all of them. Do you think we’ll get a fair hearing?”
GustavoistSoldier on
Most of the international community continued to recognize Pol Pot as the leader of Cambodia until 1992.
Fuzzy_Category_1882 on
In the 1970s Vietnam deported 400,000 ethnic Chinese from vietnam viewing them as a security threat and capitalist business owners. The government seized their assets and forced them to walk across the border into China and often shoot at them. Those that remained were repressed and wererent allowed to be apart of the government or own any business. Nowadays Vietnam’s government doesn’t teach this and makes excuses that they were pro China and controlled South Vietnam’s economy.
DankVectorz on
Vietnam did not invade to end the genocide. They invaded because the Khmer Rouge repeatedly attacked Vietnam in cross border raids. Eventually Vietnam had had enough and invaded Cambodia. Ending the genocide was a side effect.
BrickAntique5284 on
When has the UN ever been useful for anything recently. I’ve been hearing nothing of them besides them being useless.
biglyorbigleague on
As far as most global bodies are concerned, interstate conflict is seen as more serious than domestic crimes against humanity. The UN got involved in the Korean War but they don’t care about anything North Korea does to its own citizens every day.
Shinyhero30 on
SEAsia is just a shitshow. It’s the Balkans 2.0 but with worse and older conflicts…
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I swear, this timeline is fucked up beyond human comprehension
When someone asked why Vietnam didn’t ask the UN to mediate in their conflicts, they said “We’ve gone to war with a majority of the permanent security council, and beaten all of them. Do you think we’ll get a fair hearing?”
Most of the international community continued to recognize Pol Pot as the leader of Cambodia until 1992.
In the 1970s Vietnam deported 400,000 ethnic Chinese from vietnam viewing them as a security threat and capitalist business owners. The government seized their assets and forced them to walk across the border into China and often shoot at them. Those that remained were repressed and wererent allowed to be apart of the government or own any business. Nowadays Vietnam’s government doesn’t teach this and makes excuses that they were pro China and controlled South Vietnam’s economy.
Vietnam did not invade to end the genocide. They invaded because the Khmer Rouge repeatedly attacked Vietnam in cross border raids. Eventually Vietnam had had enough and invaded Cambodia. Ending the genocide was a side effect.
When has the UN ever been useful for anything recently. I’ve been hearing nothing of them besides them being useless.
As far as most global bodies are concerned, interstate conflict is seen as more serious than domestic crimes against humanity. The UN got involved in the Korean War but they don’t care about anything North Korea does to its own citizens every day.
SEAsia is just a shitshow. It’s the Balkans 2.0 but with worse and older conflicts…