ABSTRACT
The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia caused hundreds of thousands of Cambodians to run, but very few could escape as neatly as Pol Pot managed to do. DK troops numbering over 30,000 men and women, accompanied by perhaps 100,000 villagers and conscripts, retreated through the forests into northwestern Cambodia as Vietnamese armies swept up the major roads and occupied the towns. Thousands of Cambodians died in combat and from malaria and malnutrition in the exodus. By the end of 1979 most of what was left of Democratic Kampuchea's army was encamped in malarial forests close to the Thai-Cambodian border. Pol Pot's whereabouts for most of that year are unknown.
