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Which war saw Hun Sen fighting with Vietnamese forces?

  • Cambodian–Vietnamese War

  • Cambodian Civil War

  • Vietnam War

  • Second Indochina War

Answer

The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was a conflict between Cambodia and Vietnam that took place from 1979 to 1989. It was the result of a Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia that overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime, which had previously been responsible for the Cambodian Genocide. Hun Sen was a Khmer Rouge commander who defected to Vietnam in 1978 and fought alongside Vietnamese forces during the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
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