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By late 1978, the regime’s cruelty reached beyond Cambodia’s borders. Pol Pot’s forces attacked neighboring Vietnam, provoking a retaliation that would end his rule. In January 1979, Vietnamese troops entered Phnom Penh and overthrew the Khmer Rouge. The nightmare of Democratic Kampuchea was over, but the wounds it left behind would take generations to heal.