Khmer Thai War

The Surin Province has an ever declining Khmer population, however, until the early 2000s, it was majority Khmer. In this timeline, Pol Pot invades the Surin province to create a greater Khmer state.

Timeline
1977 - Pol Pot invades Thai Surin province to "Liberate" the Khmers the the area, although many believe he was doing this to wipe out Khmer refugee camps and force them back to Cambodia. Within months, the poorly supplied Kampuchean Revolutionary Army is defeated, and the Abandoned Phnom Penh is captured.

1978 - Having poor relations with the Pro China Sihanouk, the Thai restores Lon Nol to power. Because no invasion of Cambodia was nessasary, Vietnam China relations do not deteriorate.

1979 - Tamil nationalism rises in India. Kashmir sepratism also rises. In poverty striken Chattisgarh, a Marxist insurgency beings.