Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I ngā tau 1970, i tino tautokohia, i pūteahia hoki te Khmer Rouge e te CCP, i whakaaetia e Mao Zedong; e kiia ana ko te 90% o te awhina ke i tukuna ki te Khmer Rouge i ahu mai i Haina. I whakakahoretia te kāwanatanga i te mana i te tau 1979 i te wā i whakaekehia ai a Vietnam ki Cambodia
ā, i hohoro te whakangaromanga i te nuinga o ngā ope a te Khmer Rouge. Katahi ka rere te Khmer Rouge ki Thailand, i kite te kawanatanga i a raatau hei kaha ki te Communist Vietnamese. I haere tonu te Khmer Rouge ki te whawhai ki nga Vietnamese me te kawanatanga o te People's Republic of Kampuchea hou tae noa ki te mutunga o te pakanga i te tau 1989. Ko nga kawanatanga o Cambodia i te whakarau (tae atu ki te Khmer Rouge) i mau ki te nohoanga o Cambodia i te United Nations (me te tautoko nui o te ao) tae noa ki te 1993, i te wa i whakahokia mai ai te rangatiratanga me te ingoa o te kawanatanga o Cambodia i hurihia ki te Kingi o Cambodia. I te tau i muri mai, he mano nga toa o Khmer Rouge i tuku i a ratau ano i roto i te mana o te kawanatanga.