The event of 18 Mina should not happen because the key players had no preparation nor having any concrete plan to deal with the consequences. The vibration of nationalism among khmer in urban area was at peak, but the people of other places were not . We know Vietcong are everywhere. We accused former king a traitor selling land to Vietcong. The national assembly at that time was just rubber stamp of the coup plotters, some of them still respected former king and other hesitated to make a change.The situation was completely chaotic and confused . Khmer rouge and Vietcong were so happy to assist khmer Republic leaders to attack former king and making no compromise.The coup made Nixon a surprise which he did not realize how could it happen.France attempted to ask for Geneva conference in order to restore King Sihanouk back to power, but both South and North Vietnam including American refused. France could not intervene nor having any influence to the coup plotters in Cambodia not to abolish monarchy institution as England did to Thailand during the coup of 1932. England warned coup plotters in Thailand to use force if monarchy institution demolished. Some argued that if no coup at that time the whole kingdom of Cambodia was fallen in Vietnamese hand. The Vietnamese was not stupid enough to take Cambodia before liberating South if they did their struggle of liberating South was dead. We had liitle information about Vietnam, the only thing we know about them is hatre. Fanatic nationalism is very dangerous that why we lost the war, we lost so many lives and then we lost the country as today .The ignorance of history condemned us to the dead.
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