How was Pol Pot able to take control of Cambodia?
PHIL PONCE: But how was he able to take power? How was he able to overtake the country? SYDNEY SCHANBERG: I believe that it never would have happened had the war not been brought to Cambodia, the Vietnam War. Cambodia was under Sihanouk was trying to maintain a balance, appeasing both sides, allowing the Vietnamese to have sanctuaries inside Cambodian soil and allowing the Americans to bomb those sanctuaries. But in 1970, as we may remember, President Nixon sent American troops in. That was after Sihanouk was deposed, and there was no longer a neutralist in power; there was a pro-Western Junta. And so Nixon sent troops in. The war spread throughout Cambodia, and a very small and ineffectual band of people called the Khmer Rouge maybe numbering no more than 3,000 men, suddenly began to grow and recruit on the basis of that war. They would point at the American intervention as the hated animals, at the bombs falling from B-52’s as something they had to oppose if they were going to have f
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