Don’t throw rocks when you live in a glass house!

Hun Xen scolds Lon Nol

18 March 2010
By Leang Delux
Radio France Internationale
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
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“18 March 1970: it was 40 years ago that Cambodia descended into war. 18 March 2010: 40 years later, Cambodia is at peace and development is taking shape throughout the country,” this is what PM Hun Xen declared on Thursday morning during the inauguration of a stretch of road from Bankung to O’Yadaw in Ratanakiri province.

Hun Xen said directly that the inauguration of this stretch of road was not by accident, but it was intentionally done to tell the world that 40 years earlier and 40 years later, Cambodia is different.

Hun Xen recalled the historical event leading to the toppling of then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk by Marshall Lon Nol. Hun Xen also scolded Lon Nol, saying that this event led Cambodia and its people into destruction.
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KI-Media Note: Did Hun Xen forget that he was part of the KR regime which was one the main character in the destruction of Cambodia also? As the saying goes: “Don’t throw rocks when you live in a glass house”!

Hun Sen denounces Lon Nol coup

PM denounces Lon Nol coup

Thursday, 19 March 2009
Written by Sebastian Strangio and Neth Pheaktra
The Phnom Penh Post

ON the 39th anniversary of the 1970 coup d'etat that overthrew Prince Norodom Sihanouk and led to the establishment of a Cambodian republic, Prime Minister Hun Sen blamed the event for unleashing decades of civil war and the 1975 victory of the Khmer Rouge.

"If there was not a coup d'etat on March 18, 1970, dismissing [Sihanouk], the war would not have taken place and the Pol Pot regime would not have been created either," Hun Sen said at the National Institute of Education's annual congress Wednesday.

"If they let Sihanouk lead the country, Cambodia would have developed more and prevented millions of deaths." His comments came amid statements from the US-based Cambodian Action Committee for Justice and Equity expressing "an immense debt of gratitude" to the Lon Nol regime for stopping an "invasion" of Vietnamese communist forces. "If there was no March 18, 1970, Cambodia would end up certainly and completely under Hanoi's yoke, as is Khmer Kampuchea Krom today," the statement said.

But Funcinpec First Deputy President Lu Laysreng said the coup ultimately hastened the onset of civil war. "If there was no coup in 1970 we would not have had over two million people killed by Pol Pot," he said.