# If the U.S. had won the Viet Nam war, would the Cambodian genocide have occurred?

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If the U.S. had uncontested occupation of Vietnam, would the Cambodian genocide have gone on longer than it did, because the Vietnamese generals who would have stopped it had been removed by the USA?

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