The amendment would have precluded U.S. military aid from being provided to the noncommunist Cambodian resistance that is fighting 80, 000 Vietnamese invasion troops and the forces of the Vietnamese-backed puppet government of the People's Republic of Kampuchea.
In the absence of adequate military supplies from the West, the two non-communist factions of the resistance have been compelled to seek aid from China and to join an unpalatable tripartite arrangement known as the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK).
These Archives constitute the most complete existing documentary picture of the Democratic Kampuchea prison system, a fundamental part of the regime under which about 2-3 million people (25-30% of the population) lost their lives in a period of 3 years, 8 months and 20 days.