Death toll of a surviving Khmer Rouge

Say China, Us, and Thailand dissuade Vietnam from overthrowing the Khmer Rouge

What would be the Death toll of a surviving Khmer Rouge

Would the Khmer Rouge ever moderate
 
Didn't the Khmer Rouge aim to "eliminate the bourgeosie" and wasn't this already done in the OTL?
 
The Khmer Rouge killed roughly a quarter of its population in less than a decade. And as long as they don’t piss off Vietnam it anyone who could stomp them even farther back into the Stone Age than they were already stomping themselves, it’s 50-50 if there’s even a Cambodia left now. Most likely it becomes a failed state like Somalia and splinters off between KR ideologies and desperate people who try to rebuild into a halfway functioning country.
 
Cambodia would be in such terrible condition that it would be failed state in 2018. Even if Pol Pot is somehow replaced with more moderate leader on early 1980's Cambodia would be totally ruined.
 

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I'd say they pretty much completed what they wanted, there wasn't much to kill kill destroy kill left

Then they get their shit together and invade Vietnam, but don't get stomped like they did, now that would be a mess
 
I'd say they pretty much completed what they wanted, there wasn't much to kill kill destroy kill left

Then they get their shit together and invade Vietnam, but don't get stomped like they did, now that would be a mess

They might had stopped active killing and destroying soon but more people would die in famines and other poor conditions. Cambodia might try invade Vietnam but it would be disastrous for Khmers and it would just make destruction worse when ten of thousands young men would die. Demographic disaster might be pretty close level of Paraguay after Paraguayan War on 1860's.
 
Justice and Starvation in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge Famine

The Cambodia Law and Policy Journal, Randle DeFalco, Dec. 2014.
http://cambodialpj.org/article/justice-and-starvation-in-cambodia-the-khmer-rouge-famine/

' . . . Khmer Rouge survivors typically use the verb “bong-ot,” meaning “to starve” or “to withhold food” . . . '
The Khmer Rouge had this fiction that they could triple rice production by sheer will power. And it looks like they exported rice to China based on this fiction.
 
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