Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History (Ep-9) Cambodia and Laos' (Apr. 17, 1975, at 50:58)

(Thursday, April 17, 1975, 10:00 a.m. Indochina Time; during the Cambodian Civil War, part of the Vietnam War, Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — After five years of savage fighting, the Khmer Republic, the republican government of Cambodia, was defeated today when the victorious Khmer Rouge, followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, proclaimed the establishment of Democratic Kampuchea.