Tuesday, May 26, 2009
AFP
Phnom Penh— Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes court Monday heard from a former journalist about how Southeast Asia’s communist revolution descended into a bloody territorial conflict with Vietnam. Nayan Chanda, a former editor of the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review, said a border dispute with Vietnam was “the biggest concern” for Khmer Rouge leaders after they took power in 1975.
Current Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who was a Khmer Rouge soldier at the time, was ordered to lead troops in an attack on Vietnam, said Chanda, the author of “Brother Enemy: The War After the War.”
“In May 1977, the (Khmer Rouge) eastern zone planned to attack Vietnam and Mr Hun Sen who was then a member of the Khmer Rouge was put in charge of the plan, but he told (a historian) that he would not do it and he took refuge in the jungle,” Chanda said. Hun Sen eventually returned to Cambodia as part of the Vietnam-backed invasion force that toppled the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979, and became premier in 1985.
Chanda told the court that Vietnam began major attacks on Cambodia in 1977 after the Khmer Rouge severed diplomatic relations.
“They wanted to give the message to the Khmer Rouge that there is a price to pay if they continue to carry out attacks on Vietnamese border,” Chanda said.
Chanda was testifying at the trial of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch, who is accused of overseeing the torture and extermination of some 15,000 people who passed through the notorious Tuol Sleng prison in the late 1970s.
Current Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who was a Khmer Rouge soldier at the time, was ordered to lead troops in an attack on Vietnam, said Chanda, the author of “Brother Enemy: The War After the War.”
“In May 1977, the (Khmer Rouge) eastern zone planned to attack Vietnam and Mr Hun Sen who was then a member of the Khmer Rouge was put in charge of the plan, but he told (a historian) that he would not do it and he took refuge in the jungle,” Chanda said. Hun Sen eventually returned to Cambodia as part of the Vietnam-backed invasion force that toppled the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979, and became premier in 1985.
Chanda told the court that Vietnam began major attacks on Cambodia in 1977 after the Khmer Rouge severed diplomatic relations.
“They wanted to give the message to the Khmer Rouge that there is a price to pay if they continue to carry out attacks on Vietnamese border,” Chanda said.
Chanda was testifying at the trial of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch, who is accused of overseeing the torture and extermination of some 15,000 people who passed through the notorious Tuol Sleng prison in the late 1970s.
10 comments:
Ah Hun Sen has never ceased to be a Khmer Rouge. He continues to be the Viet slave to this day and will hand the left over khmer over to be exterminated by the Viet for sure!!!
Little has changed since the Vietcong invaded Cambodia and AH HUN SEN is still the same Viet slave! It is okay for AH HUN SEN and his family to be Viet slave but he has no right to force the whole Cambodian population to be Viet slave!
Cambodia deserves better than slave to master relationship promoted by AH HUN SEN!
Everyone know that AH Hun Sen is Khmer Rouge.
My question is how many innocent Khmer peoples did Hun Sen kill?
To Hun Sen Khmer Rouge supporter
Help us out.
Maybe you guys know how many innocent Khmer peoples Hun Sen kill.
Hun Sen was not being ordered to lead in an attack on Yuon. Hun Sen had betrayed his Khmer people and the nation from the very beginning. This information is very information because that was the main reason "Hun Sen got where he has been right now". Hun Sen was the one that slaughtered innocent Khmer people!
Is the Pope (Vatican zumbie)Catholic?
Well, if the Pope is Catholic, and then don't believe in this nonsense fabricated stories supported by Puok Ah Jkuot Jruoks.
Pi Anh: PPU
See who are in power now?
Ah Hun Xen was khmer Rouge's commender.
Shihanouk was khmer Rouge's president.
Ah Eang Vuth son of the bitch, Eng Thirirh and Ah Eang Sary khmere Rouge motherfucker!
They all are so called top leader of Cambodia now with the legal hand out of UNTAC!
May lightning and Cancer punish the evils!
Poumping Poum University (PPU)
Puok Ah Jkuot Jruot Scum Rainsy's supporters, your ignorance amuses me immensely.
Pi Anh: PPU
Pi Anh: PPU u stupid fucker
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