Below please find the article I wrote and posted on your blog last year. I have made some minor modifications to the original version and would appreciate if you can post it again this year.
To other compatriots, especially those elder who had personal involvements in some key events from the early days to the end of the KR movement, if you notice any inconsistency or inaccuracy in the events mentioned in this article, please provide feedback and I'll make the necessary corrections.
Thanks,
Khmer Academy
The event of January 07, 1979 continues to generate protracted debates in our country at different levels and classes of society. Whether at political or academic institutions, professional or business communities, or casual web blogs, these debates have polarized the nation into two camps – the increasing majority who views January 07, 1979 as a full scale invasion with a clear intent-to-occupy; and the few who, for a matter of convenience, chooses to portray it as a genuine humanitarian intervention from Hanoi to save Khmer people from the KR killing regime.
At the center of these debates, the very same question has been raised repeatedly. What was the real motive(s) leading to the January 07, 1979 event? To these days, the answers to that question not only remain politically unsettled, but also continue to predominantly influence the nation affairs because of its far-reaching historical, socio-political and economical dimensions.
In this editorial, the author will endeavour to present an impartial view of the January 07 event based on personal experiences, available historical and researched data, as well as genuine and verifiable information from credible sources; and hope to set the record straight.
In order to correctly understand the real motive(s) behind the January 07 event, it is important to revisit a series of key events starting from the Indochina anti-colonial war era.
During the struggle against the French colonialism (1946 -1954), a small number of Khmer nationals joint the Indochina Communist Party (ICP) which was created and controlled by the Vietnamese communists. However, many Khmer nationalists and intellectuals who also sought the independence from France at that time refused to joint the ICP movement because it was evident to them that the military defeat or rapid withdrawal of French colonialism would open the door for Vietnam to annex Cambodia.
In 1951, the Khmer section of the ICP was given the name of Khmer People’s Revolutionary Party (KPRP) under the leadership of Son Ngoc Minh, Sieu Heng and Tou Samut. Although they had their own party name, the KPRP leaders were nothing more than obedient executors of all plans drafted by the Vietnamese communists.
The Vietnamese communists betrayed their KPRP comrades when they signed the 1954 Geneva Agreements and withdrew their combat units from Cambodia. That betrayal allowed the Sihanouk armed forces to reclaim the zones occupied by the ICP and subsequently liquidate many KPRP members. On the verge of collapsing, the KPRP went underground and largely disappeared from Hanoi vision for many years.
As the Vietnamese communists started the unification war in the South, they made an alliance with Sihanouk in order to use Khmer territory to create rear bases and deliver ammunition and weapons to the South. In exchange, the Vietnamese communists would again betray their Khmer communist comrades by scrapping all plans for the Khmer communists to fight the Sihanouk regime.
With no outsider help and little hope to win, Sieu Heng, the second-in-command leader of KPRP, betrayed his comrades and secretly informed Sihanouk regime of Khmer communist activities in the country. In 1962, Sihanouk secret police found and killed Tou Samut at a hide-out in Phnom Penh.
In the middle of the KPRP chaos and absence of firm control from Hanoi, Pol Pot managed to get himself elected to the post of the General Secretary during the party congress in 1963. Completely caught Hanoi off-guard, Pol Pot quickly renamed the KPRP to the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK). Pol Pot later explained that the reason for changing the party name from KPRP to CPK was that the ICP and its by-product KPRP were created by Vietnam to occupy Cambodia and Laos lands.
By mid sixties, Hanoi realised that Sihanouk’s support for its armed struggle against American imperialism was weakening as Lon Nol and Sirik Matak increasingly opposed such support. Hanoi suddenly remembered its old allies – the KPRP, which had been renamed to CPK. However, Hanoi found out that due to its oversight or negligence, it had to confront many unexpected problems with the new CPK leadership.
People in Pol Pot’s clan who were nominated to occupy highest posts were largely unknown and suspicious to Hanoi because they were educated in France and were not checked for allegiance to the Vietnamese communists. Furthermore, unlike his elder comrades or predecessors from the 1950’s era, Pol Pot openly and vigorously promoted and defended a policy that Khmer communists should act in accordance with their own purposes and interests independent of all (i.e. independent of interests of Vietnamese brothers).
Recognizing the threat that Pol Pot’s clan was setting aside its interests, Hanoi considered two options – creating a new communist party in Cambodia with Khmers trained in Vietnam, or infiltrating agents inside Pol Pot’s structure. The Vietnamese communist leaders picked the second option which allowed Pol Pot to temporarily preserve the power, but hoped their infiltrating agents would be able to gradually remove him from the leadership position.
A few days after the Sihanouk regime was disposed by the military coup d’etat of March 18, 1970, the Vietnamese communists entered Cambodia arguably in response to Nuon Chea’s request. The Vietnamese occupied almost a quarter of Cambodia territory and transferred the control of the “liberated” regions to CPK. During that time, the Vietnamese leadership aroused obvious hostility and mistrust among Khmer communist leadership when it openly declared that the Cambodian communist party was given a subordinate role and obliged to follow all directions set by the Vietnamese Workers Party (VWP).
Under the 1973 Peace Agreement signed in Paris, Hanoi agreed to fully withdraw its armed forces from Cambodia. That agreement represented a unique opportunity for Pol Pot’s clan to break the Vietnamese influence and control within the Khmer communist structure. In the same year, Vietnamese communist leadership publicly admitted that the initiatives taken by the Khmer communists were out of its hands. In 1974, Pol Pot made it known to Le Duan that the relationship between the two communist parties was based on mutual respect and non-interference.
With the communist victories in Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, Hanoi had successfully accomplished one of the two Ho Chi Minh’s sacred dreams – unify North and South Vietnams, but failed the other dream – creation of Indochina Socialist Federation which put Cambodia and Laos completely under Vietnamese domination. Pol Pot continued to defy Hanoi by declaring that the KR had won a definitive and clean victory without foreign assistance, meaning the KR did not owe anything to Vietnam.
But that was not how Hanoi saw it. Hanoi was hoping that their infiltrating agents were working to gradually strengthening its influence in Cambodia. By September 1976, under the pressure from various factions, Pol Pot temporarily resigned his post of Prime Minister and made statements to fool his enemies that he was willing to soften his stance toward Vietnam.
The news of Pol Pot’s resignation was seen by Hanoi that its infiltrating agents were gaining the upper hand. In that same year, Le Duan indirectly told the Soviet Ambassador that Cambodia would become sooner or later part of Vietnam.
It turned out the news about Pol Pot’s resignation was totally misunderstood or misinterpreted by Hanoi. Hundreds if not thousands of KR pro-Vietnamese cadres trained and “introduced” by Hanoi into Pol Pot ‘s structure were arrested and tortured while Le Duan was telling his Soviet allies that Pol Pot’s clan was weakening.
For all these years, Hanoi incorrectly thought that people like So Phim, Ta Mok and Nuon Chea were loyal and sympathetic to the Indochina federation idea. Like many other high ranking KR cadres, Soa Phim opposed Pol Pot’s self-destructive ideology, but by no way he was a pro-Vietnamese as Hanoi had sought. In fact, Soa Phim was a bitterly anti-Vietnamese.
Hanoi finally recognized its obvious and repeated failures to remove Pol Pot from power through internal uprising, and lost patient with the endless border fighting started by the KR since Spring 1977. It also realized that the Beijing was training, arming KR soldiers, building roads and military bases, including the Air Force base in Kampong Chhnang, which made it possible for a fighter jet to take off and reach Saigon with less than half an hour. Such possibility posed an unacceptable threat to Vietnam national security, and Hanoi was compelled to plot a new strategy to get rid of Pol Pot by staging a coup d’etat through the mutiny of the Eastern zone military forces. Since that option ended with a complete disaster and suicide of Soa Phim, Hanoi finally decided to overthrow Pol Pot regime by a massive military invasion, which were secretly and meticulously prepared since Summer 1977.
All of these preceding events undeniably suggested that the true and only motive of January 07, 1979 event was the continuation of Ho Chi Minh’s unfulfilled dream to annex Cambodia. Through its massive military invasion, Vietnam hoped to re-conquer Cambodia and reassert its control and domination in a preparation for the eventual creation of Indochina Federation state. The presence of millions of Vietnamese illegal settlers on Cambodian soil since January 07, 1979 till these days strongly supports that argument.
Though many lives were saved from the KR systematic executions by the January 07, 1979 event, it was purely an accidental coincidence, which Hanoi later exploited it repeatedly in its propaganda to justify its invasion and hide its true motive. Knowing the history and how the KR organization came to life in the first place, Khmer people will always remember and mark the January 07, 1979 event as the end of the KR killing regime, but never as what Hanoi has sought to portray.
As it happened with other events in history, Vietnam through its agents and sympathizers can present the event of January 07, 1979 in the way that fits its expansionist agenda, but it can never fool the understanding and gain the trust of the Khmer nation with its expansionist ambition.
Khmer Academy
January 06, 2010
To other compatriots, especially those elder who had personal involvements in some key events from the early days to the end of the KR movement, if you notice any inconsistency or inaccuracy in the events mentioned in this article, please provide feedback and I'll make the necessary corrections.
Thanks,
Khmer Academy
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The Untold Truth of January 07, 1979
The event of January 07, 1979 continues to generate protracted debates in our country at different levels and classes of society. Whether at political or academic institutions, professional or business communities, or casual web blogs, these debates have polarized the nation into two camps – the increasing majority who views January 07, 1979 as a full scale invasion with a clear intent-to-occupy; and the few who, for a matter of convenience, chooses to portray it as a genuine humanitarian intervention from Hanoi to save Khmer people from the KR killing regime.
At the center of these debates, the very same question has been raised repeatedly. What was the real motive(s) leading to the January 07, 1979 event? To these days, the answers to that question not only remain politically unsettled, but also continue to predominantly influence the nation affairs because of its far-reaching historical, socio-political and economical dimensions.
In this editorial, the author will endeavour to present an impartial view of the January 07 event based on personal experiences, available historical and researched data, as well as genuine and verifiable information from credible sources; and hope to set the record straight.
In order to correctly understand the real motive(s) behind the January 07 event, it is important to revisit a series of key events starting from the Indochina anti-colonial war era.
During the struggle against the French colonialism (1946 -1954), a small number of Khmer nationals joint the Indochina Communist Party (ICP) which was created and controlled by the Vietnamese communists. However, many Khmer nationalists and intellectuals who also sought the independence from France at that time refused to joint the ICP movement because it was evident to them that the military defeat or rapid withdrawal of French colonialism would open the door for Vietnam to annex Cambodia.
In 1951, the Khmer section of the ICP was given the name of Khmer People’s Revolutionary Party (KPRP) under the leadership of Son Ngoc Minh, Sieu Heng and Tou Samut. Although they had their own party name, the KPRP leaders were nothing more than obedient executors of all plans drafted by the Vietnamese communists.
The Vietnamese communists betrayed their KPRP comrades when they signed the 1954 Geneva Agreements and withdrew their combat units from Cambodia. That betrayal allowed the Sihanouk armed forces to reclaim the zones occupied by the ICP and subsequently liquidate many KPRP members. On the verge of collapsing, the KPRP went underground and largely disappeared from Hanoi vision for many years.
As the Vietnamese communists started the unification war in the South, they made an alliance with Sihanouk in order to use Khmer territory to create rear bases and deliver ammunition and weapons to the South. In exchange, the Vietnamese communists would again betray their Khmer communist comrades by scrapping all plans for the Khmer communists to fight the Sihanouk regime.
With no outsider help and little hope to win, Sieu Heng, the second-in-command leader of KPRP, betrayed his comrades and secretly informed Sihanouk regime of Khmer communist activities in the country. In 1962, Sihanouk secret police found and killed Tou Samut at a hide-out in Phnom Penh.
In the middle of the KPRP chaos and absence of firm control from Hanoi, Pol Pot managed to get himself elected to the post of the General Secretary during the party congress in 1963. Completely caught Hanoi off-guard, Pol Pot quickly renamed the KPRP to the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK). Pol Pot later explained that the reason for changing the party name from KPRP to CPK was that the ICP and its by-product KPRP were created by Vietnam to occupy Cambodia and Laos lands.
By mid sixties, Hanoi realised that Sihanouk’s support for its armed struggle against American imperialism was weakening as Lon Nol and Sirik Matak increasingly opposed such support. Hanoi suddenly remembered its old allies – the KPRP, which had been renamed to CPK. However, Hanoi found out that due to its oversight or negligence, it had to confront many unexpected problems with the new CPK leadership.
People in Pol Pot’s clan who were nominated to occupy highest posts were largely unknown and suspicious to Hanoi because they were educated in France and were not checked for allegiance to the Vietnamese communists. Furthermore, unlike his elder comrades or predecessors from the 1950’s era, Pol Pot openly and vigorously promoted and defended a policy that Khmer communists should act in accordance with their own purposes and interests independent of all (i.e. independent of interests of Vietnamese brothers).
Recognizing the threat that Pol Pot’s clan was setting aside its interests, Hanoi considered two options – creating a new communist party in Cambodia with Khmers trained in Vietnam, or infiltrating agents inside Pol Pot’s structure. The Vietnamese communist leaders picked the second option which allowed Pol Pot to temporarily preserve the power, but hoped their infiltrating agents would be able to gradually remove him from the leadership position.
A few days after the Sihanouk regime was disposed by the military coup d’etat of March 18, 1970, the Vietnamese communists entered Cambodia arguably in response to Nuon Chea’s request. The Vietnamese occupied almost a quarter of Cambodia territory and transferred the control of the “liberated” regions to CPK. During that time, the Vietnamese leadership aroused obvious hostility and mistrust among Khmer communist leadership when it openly declared that the Cambodian communist party was given a subordinate role and obliged to follow all directions set by the Vietnamese Workers Party (VWP).
Under the 1973 Peace Agreement signed in Paris, Hanoi agreed to fully withdraw its armed forces from Cambodia. That agreement represented a unique opportunity for Pol Pot’s clan to break the Vietnamese influence and control within the Khmer communist structure. In the same year, Vietnamese communist leadership publicly admitted that the initiatives taken by the Khmer communists were out of its hands. In 1974, Pol Pot made it known to Le Duan that the relationship between the two communist parties was based on mutual respect and non-interference.
With the communist victories in Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, Hanoi had successfully accomplished one of the two Ho Chi Minh’s sacred dreams – unify North and South Vietnams, but failed the other dream – creation of Indochina Socialist Federation which put Cambodia and Laos completely under Vietnamese domination. Pol Pot continued to defy Hanoi by declaring that the KR had won a definitive and clean victory without foreign assistance, meaning the KR did not owe anything to Vietnam.
But that was not how Hanoi saw it. Hanoi was hoping that their infiltrating agents were working to gradually strengthening its influence in Cambodia. By September 1976, under the pressure from various factions, Pol Pot temporarily resigned his post of Prime Minister and made statements to fool his enemies that he was willing to soften his stance toward Vietnam.
The news of Pol Pot’s resignation was seen by Hanoi that its infiltrating agents were gaining the upper hand. In that same year, Le Duan indirectly told the Soviet Ambassador that Cambodia would become sooner or later part of Vietnam.
It turned out the news about Pol Pot’s resignation was totally misunderstood or misinterpreted by Hanoi. Hundreds if not thousands of KR pro-Vietnamese cadres trained and “introduced” by Hanoi into Pol Pot ‘s structure were arrested and tortured while Le Duan was telling his Soviet allies that Pol Pot’s clan was weakening.
For all these years, Hanoi incorrectly thought that people like So Phim, Ta Mok and Nuon Chea were loyal and sympathetic to the Indochina federation idea. Like many other high ranking KR cadres, Soa Phim opposed Pol Pot’s self-destructive ideology, but by no way he was a pro-Vietnamese as Hanoi had sought. In fact, Soa Phim was a bitterly anti-Vietnamese.
Hanoi finally recognized its obvious and repeated failures to remove Pol Pot from power through internal uprising, and lost patient with the endless border fighting started by the KR since Spring 1977. It also realized that the Beijing was training, arming KR soldiers, building roads and military bases, including the Air Force base in Kampong Chhnang, which made it possible for a fighter jet to take off and reach Saigon with less than half an hour. Such possibility posed an unacceptable threat to Vietnam national security, and Hanoi was compelled to plot a new strategy to get rid of Pol Pot by staging a coup d’etat through the mutiny of the Eastern zone military forces. Since that option ended with a complete disaster and suicide of Soa Phim, Hanoi finally decided to overthrow Pol Pot regime by a massive military invasion, which were secretly and meticulously prepared since Summer 1977.
All of these preceding events undeniably suggested that the true and only motive of January 07, 1979 event was the continuation of Ho Chi Minh’s unfulfilled dream to annex Cambodia. Through its massive military invasion, Vietnam hoped to re-conquer Cambodia and reassert its control and domination in a preparation for the eventual creation of Indochina Federation state. The presence of millions of Vietnamese illegal settlers on Cambodian soil since January 07, 1979 till these days strongly supports that argument.
Though many lives were saved from the KR systematic executions by the January 07, 1979 event, it was purely an accidental coincidence, which Hanoi later exploited it repeatedly in its propaganda to justify its invasion and hide its true motive. Knowing the history and how the KR organization came to life in the first place, Khmer people will always remember and mark the January 07, 1979 event as the end of the KR killing regime, but never as what Hanoi has sought to portray.
As it happened with other events in history, Vietnam through its agents and sympathizers can present the event of January 07, 1979 in the way that fits its expansionist agenda, but it can never fool the understanding and gain the trust of the Khmer nation with its expansionist ambition.
Khmer Academy
January 06, 2010
27 comments:
Dear Khmer Academy,
thank you for posting such historical facts and I hope everyone clearly understand the purpose of 7 Jan 79 after reading your doc.
(A) To true Khmer nationalists...07.01.79 is an infamous date when Cambodia was invaded by Vietnam.
(B) To any lackey puppets...07.01.79 is a date of liberation from KR by Vietnam.
It does not take a genius to figure out who is working for whom.
Here are a list of those belonging to class (A) or (B)
(A) Sihanouk, Ranariddh, Son Sann, Son Soubert, Sam Rainsy, Penn Sovann, Pol Pot, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary, Nhek Bunchhay...
(B) Heng Samrin, Chea Sim, Hun Sen, Hor Namhong, Var Kim Hong...
Repeat history! Historically, Khmer always depend on Viet or Siam for support. As a result, Khmer is under control either Siam or Viet. When Khmer hate Siam, they ask Viet to help fight Siam. In return, Khmer is submited to Viet's control. When Khmer is bored with Viet, they ask Siam to fight Viet. In return, Khmer is submitted to Siam's control. This has been repeated back and ford for centuaries. When are we free from these two giant neighbors?
Come to think of it, we regret that Pol Pot has committed atrocity, but respected his conscience to protected our motherland and our territory from evil country that bordered eatern part of Cambodia.
Most of all he loved his country more than Hun Xen, Chea Xim, Heng xamrin, and Sihamony. He did not sold himself to the Vietcong, seem like he is using them instead, he is one brave men not like the other cpp people are low class scumbag.
This article is a disgrace. Facts was combined and modified. Regarding the idea of the Cambodian population to 7 January 1979 is not also what the author mentioned. Shame on you.
11:28
I agree with what you and the columnist said. If you watch interviews made with Pol Pot and Khieu Samphan, you will see that they loved Cambodia and wanted to protect Cambodia and it's people. Pol Pot stated that he was inexperienced and made many mistake, but the killings were not committed by his Regime and Khieu Samphan said the same thing. It was the Vietnamese that called most of the shots and infiltrated all ranks of the Khmer Rouge Regime and masterminded the killing Fields, to get rid of Khmer people and to begin the Vietnamization of Cambodia. So sad, how some Cambodians really think that the Viets provided us with humanitarian help and were so grateful of the Vietnamese. They pretended to liberate us, when in fact they were always in Cambodia since 1975 and were instrumental in the killing of almost 1 million Khmer people. When Pol Pot had his own agenda, they invaded Cambodia, this time with tanks, rifles and their own military uniform and toppled Pol Pot's control of Cambodia.
1.51 AM, SO TELL US YOUR REAL VERSION OF HISTORY, ANYTHING IN THE ARTICLE YOU CAN SPECIFICALLY REBUTT ?
Khmer Academy
Well research and written, my hat off to you.
One thing I must say that "Without 7 Janaury 1979", Cambodia would be a "No man land". You and I would not be here today nad have many say about how beloved country's politics. SR would not be able to go back and enter Politic, and I am sorry that this is the fact.
Cambodia and its people shall reunite and paricualrly all politic parties shall work together to get the country up instead of further deviding the nation. But it is hard as many Cambodia always claim themselves that they are better than the other and at the end of the day the neighboruing countries will laugh their way to the bank with those windfall from economy and intentional destability creates by political parties.
Let learn from the dark history and put Cambodia back on map
Khmer Krom are full of b/s. They like to mix fact with fiction.
If Vietnamese Government is in good standing with respect to its due due diligence over Cambodia, the Viet.Gov't should and would not encroached Cambodian sovereignty. However, the case is Controversial Issues because the Viet. Gov't does encroach Cambodian border territories. Therefore, the Jan. 07, 1979 is NOT legitimated, and furthermore, any memorandum of understandings and/or treaties signed by and between Hun Sen and the Viet. Governments therefore are Illegitimated.
To Ieng Sary, Kheiv Somphorn,Noun Chea...
Come on tell us the truth before you guys say good-bye...then you will be listed as a man...also don't forget to tell us who is your big boss?
Anyway, It's a good acticle and I wish It was written in Khmer,so our Cambodians who don't speak english can understand their own real history...
It was the Viet Communist who plans to kill all Khmers and try to put the blame on Pol Pot. Pol Pot betrayed the Viet because Pol Pot knows that the Viet wants to decrease the size of Khmer populations so they can control Cambodia. Pol Pot needs all the man power to fight the Viet Cong, he would never order his troops to kill his own people. And he also has a vision to reunited the Khmer Krom and Khmer Leur with Khmer Kondal. To me, he was a Patriot Leader who wants to protect Cambodia from the Tiger and the Crocodile. So please don't rush your judgement on Pol Pot. The Viets are very clever. They orchestrated all these evil plans to put the blame on Pol Pot in-order to receive Khmer people support and to make themselve look like the savior from heaven.
Legal argument, How did you know for sure and what evidents/facts you based on that "Without 7 Janaury 1979", Cambodia would be a "No man land"?
Thank but NO THANK!
'Legal argument' and "No man land"?
It is not a 'legal argument,' and Cambodia has always been a man land, and even without 01/07/79.
Your comment has no logical sense....sorry!
The viets helped the Khmer Rouge to form its communist movement back to the 1930s, but when the KR won the war in 1975,the killings inside cambodia were done by the Khmer under the order of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Son Sen - those in the politibureau. Tuol Sleng ws the work of Son Sen and Nuon Chea with Duch as the chief executioner. Even viet soldiers captured were not spared.
If we want to understand why our society had so much killing, we shouldcarefully study our history properly. Most of the time, Khmer society has been filled with hatred, oppression, looking down on each other, class hatred, feudalistic ruling,etc. The marxist/communist ideology espoused by khmer communists with coaching from the viets during the cold war era played perfectly into the killing fields.
Read Warrior Heritage by Bit Seang Lim may help enlighten some tragic past events, even what is going on right now. We Khmer have not changed a bit - we are so self-destructive. We love foreigners, the viets, more than our own people. Ask Hun Sen who he'd love to see dead, yuon or Sam Rainsy ? He would definitely say Sam Rainsy.
Only when Khmer leaders, and Khmer people as a whole, have tolerance toward each other, regardless of political persuasions, under one law for all, will we Khmer be strong as a nation, regain our dignity as we once did.
Hun Sen, Chea Sim, Heng Samrin are Viet agents. They were infiltrated to achieve Ho Chi Minh Second Dream-to annex Cambodian as part of IndoChina Federation.
Dear Khmer Academy,
Good to read your article. It would be more useful if you can add the reason why/how 1.7 million of Cambodian people killed during the KR regime. What was behind? Was it link with the Vietnamese, America, Soviet...?
Personally, i didn't see the current government is under the Vietnam's control or interferrance. I trust on the prime minister Hun Sen and i am sure he loves the nation the same to you and me. The PM knows clearly the fact, and so that's why he always be quiet at the moment not to be against the Vietnam. He will give the next generation to better our nation for sure.
Please believe that Cambodia is independant, peaceful and developing step by step, and not under control of any foreign country!
Hean Padhi
06/01/2010
From day one YOUN were and continue to kill Khmer. Pol Pot knew their plans and they want to get rid of Pol Pot time after time but unsuccessful. Plus Pol Pot wouldn't let YOUN touch Khmer land and Khmer sea at all. He would go after them. Unlike today, Hun Sen, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin encourage YOUN to take more lands and kill our people.
The Yuon state is the enemy of the Khmer Nation.
It's clearly showing that the UN should no longer silent about Vietnam. The UN must call the Vietnamese's government to testify as well as Noun Chea, Kiev Sam Phan, Ing Sary, his wife and Hor Nam Hong ect... Leaving Vietnam out is a court with no justice, because Vietnam holds big piece of the mystery puzzle. 2 millions Cambodian did not die secretly under pol pot alone.
Isn't Lok Siev Heng and Noun Chea are uncle and nephew?
Another word Lok Siev Heng chose to do the right thing by informing the King about the true and what went on in Cambodia. He must realized good or bad, Cambodia is best handing to the man which truely care for Cambodia. That is King Sihanouk. Vietnam can just go to hell. Noun Chea is pretty much the same way. He is dead serious about disagreeing with Communist Vietnam controling Cambodia. Remember the victory of Khmer Rouge ruled by Noun Chea and Pol Pot on April 17th of 1975, King and his wife were celebrating in Peking. This was a true sign of trust that Lok Siev Heng's newphew ( Noun Chea )was a man that his majesty could really count on, but because of the Chaos created by Vietnam, things rather got extremely complicated. 1977 was the nastiest year of all. The year of extreme killing inside Cambodia. Both Noun Chea and Vietnam must go to court. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS HONORING VIETNAM NATION WHICH HAD BLOOD OF TWO MILLIONS CAMBODIAN IN HER HANDS. It's just not right.
Never trust a Viet or a Thai, period.
5:09 PM - I am not Khmer Academy, but allow me to response to your post.
I think only Pol Pot and a few of his top lieutenants knew the real reasons and the people behind the killing between 1975-1979. Unfortunately, Khiev Samphan, Nuon Chea and Ieng Sary are not saying much.
It is very unlikely that USA or Russia have anything to do with that killing. But Vietnam definitely played a major role. In fact, Vietnam constantly but secretely sabotaged Pol Pot's regime and created chaos and confusion which led to killing and destruction.
One of the reasons behind the killing during Pol Pot's regime was that there were two opposing lines of Khmer Rouge - those who worked for and protected the nation; and those who were brainwashed and introduced by Hanoi to destroy the nation.
Which group was PM Hun Sen part of? If he pretends to belong to the first group, then may I ask why he allows or tolerates the presence millions of illegal yuon settlers in Cambodia since Jan 1979, and signed land concession treaty with Hanoi?
I hope that PM Hun Sen did belong to the first group, and that he will do everything possible to prove it. Otherwise, he will be seen by Khmer people that he was a true yuon agent; That would be very sad for his children, grand children and grand-grand children.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
Thanks to Khmer Academy. Your article is an eye opener to all khmers. January 7th was definitely orchestrated by the Viets and it was clearly an invasion, not liberation as some naive scholars have said. I would say that these western scholars have not a clue regarding true southeast asian history.
We khmer must not forget the viet's expansion intention. Mark my words: Viets can not be trusted as friends. Another obious clue that points to the viet as the mastermind behind the killing field is that after the invasion, the viets continue to kill khmers through its fucking K5 plan by sending khmer people to die in mine fields along the cambodian-thai border.
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