"We are well obliged to kill them as well": Norodom Sihanouk

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Translated from French by Tola Ek

Declaration from
Norodom Sihanouk
(Continued and End)

Beijing, P.R. China, 22 April 2009

4- French and other journalists now write that I was a bloodthirsty Leader (sic!) (during the SRN era between 1955 and 1969).

This is my “response” to this accusation:

(The new Petit Robert dictionary of the French Language, 2008 edition. “bloodthirsty”: one who takes pleasure in spilling blood, in killing; a tyrant, a cruel and ferocious monster.).

4a- Each year, the USA, the top liberal Democracy in the world, send a number of people who received the death sentence from their competent tribunals to the “gas chamber.” Nobody in the world calls the USA “bloodthirsty.”

As for me, they call me “bloodthirsty” when, as head of state of Cambodia, I refused to pardon US CIA agents, spies of the blue South Vietnam, local traitors who, in front of our military tribunal, gave out complete confessions about their serious crimes against Cambodia which is independent and neutral.

4b- Even before the 1970-1975 war, our Cambodia knew warring actions led against our national leader and regime which was elected by our people, by the Khmer Rouge people, and most of all by the Khmer Blue soldiers who were trained by the US CIA, by the US Green Beret, by Thai militaries, by Thieu and Ky’s “blue” South Vietnamese militaries.

I don’t find Sihanouk and the armed Sihanoukists to be “bloodthirsty” when they absolutely had to lead warring actions against adversaries, against enemies who were not only fighting against me, but also and most of all, fighting to destroy the Cambodian national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, unity and peace.

These enemy-fighters kill their royalist-Sihanoukist enemies.

We are well obliged to kill them as well. This is the universal Law of War, including that of civil War.

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Note: If I was a bloodthirsty, cruel tyrant, the great majority of my compatriots would not pray – as they are doing currently – so that I live more than 100 years.

5- Why French, US and other journalists hate so much N. Sihanouk

5a- The French never pardon me for shaking the yoke of their colonialism, for being somewhat strong [good] in French (I heard them praise Khmer people while speaking in a “condescending French”).

5b- The French do not like I reply to their critiques.

5c- The Americans do not understand that I could be different from the Lonnolians.

5d- The other “Westerners” do not like the fact that I can have “hot discussions” with them in correct English.

5e- The West wants to impose on the Third World its ideals, and most of all, its concept of democracy, freedom, etc…

They (the West) do not like me because I am a nationalist Khmer who is unable to become “de-khmerized” such as some Khmer people from Canada, etc... who blame me for staying too long in the PRC, and they prefer to ignore the fact that I have a very serious 3rd cancer (lymphoma B), to which my eminent Chinese doctors are doing the maximum to give it a cure (in a few months).

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(Signed) Norodom Sihanouk