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Summary: 1970 to 1975 Lon Nol regime and civil war In 1970, General Lon Nol seized power from Sihanouk with United States support. The Vietnam War was then at a peak. The Americans were bombing Eastern Cambodia, to further the war against North Vietnamese communists. The bombing killed thousands of civilians and turned hundreds of thousands into refugees. The Cambodian communists, the Khmer Rouge, fought against Lon Nol and his government forces, gaining support in many rural districts.
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