Timeline Sunday 7 January 1979

Events on Sunday 7 January 1979 1

• 1979 Fall of Phnom Penh ends Khmer Rouge rule Vietnamese forces topple Pol Pot's government Vietnamese troops and Cambodian rebels captured Phnom Penh on 7 January 1979, ending nearly four years of Khmer Rouge rule under Pol Pot. The invasion ousted the genocidal Democratic Kampuchea regime and installed the People's Republic of Kampuchea. Remnants of the Khmer Rouge retreated to the Thai border and continued fighting for years.