Translated from French by Luc SârCambodian Studies
“To avenge oneself,” by N. Sihanouk
“To avenge oneself,” by N. Sihanouk
Certain Personalities and People find that the advent and the establishment in (the 2nd Kingdom of) Cambodia of the (already infamous) UN ECCC, give them a “wonderful” opprotunity to avenge themselves against the disgraced N. Sihanouk whose “unforgivable crime” was to have “defeated” their “Khmer Republic” or that of their respective parents who are now taking refuge in the USA, in France, etc… or … returned to Kampuchea to “avenge themselves” against Sihanouk, to dirty him with the worst slanders, and to drag him in front of the “famous” UN ECCC.
In the New Petit Robert (French dictionary) of the French language, one can read these lines: “TO AVENGE ONESELF: return the offense (to someone) to compensate oneself morally; to compensate oneself (of an offense) by punishing its author; to find a compensation to (a humiliation, a constraint).
Did I, during the 40s, 50s 60s and 70s, offend (as little as it was) these Ladies and Gentlemen or their Parents or their Grandparents? Did I (if only just once) inflicted a humiliation of imposed any constraint whatsoever?
Our respected and beloved People and the entire world know that, during the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and up until their Putsch on March 18, 1970, all these Khmer “Republican men and women” or their Parents or Grandparents only received, are receiving only from me and from our monarchy: protection, multifaceted aids, honors, important positions, wealth, pride, deep affection.
And they reward me back with their Putsch, their sentence to death, with the confiscation of (my) properties and of the Khmer citizenship, and their horrible, so unfair and unending slanders which are extending all the way to the 21st century, which will extend and will undoubtedly intensify until my death and after my death.
I read also in my “Petit Robert,” HALLALI [mort in English: putting to death of the prey]: a hunting sound which announces that the prey being chased is in dire straits; this sound itself, or the note of the hunting horn which substitutes the sound.
To sound the mort: The last part of the hunting where the prey is put to death. To sound the mort of someone: to announce his/her ending.
Today, enthusiastic and greatly encouraged by the advent and the establishment in the current Cambodia of the UN ECCC, the Sihanouk-haters demand to sound the mort for N. Sihanouk, to send (me) to the famous UN ECCC which will put me to death.
Why this hatred which literally turn certain “Doctors” or otherwise to craziness?
I know the cause: their terrible sufferings and humiliations in April 1975, after 5 years of war which they wanted with all their heart and soul.
Mr. Sisowath Sirik Matak said: “The USA which succeeded in conquering the Moon, cannot lose this war in Cambodia.”
A few days before the total defeat of the USA and their lackeys in Cambodia (in April 1975), the same Sirik Matak wrote a letter to the US government, saying to the latter something like: “I believed in you. But here come the defeat and the humiliation. I (Sirik Matak) refuse to take exile in your country which I believed to be invincible. I accept to die here in my Country.”
What courage! What dignity! But nowadays, the “Doctors” and otherwise do not have such courage, such dignity. Not wanting to risk death or the least accident, they found that their “courage” and their “dignity” consist of sounding the mort of Sihanouk with the help of UN ECCC!!!
(Signed) Norodom Sihanouk
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In the New Petit Robert (French dictionary) of the French language, one can read these lines: “TO AVENGE ONESELF: return the offense (to someone) to compensate oneself morally; to compensate oneself (of an offense) by punishing its author; to find a compensation to (a humiliation, a constraint).
Did I, during the 40s, 50s 60s and 70s, offend (as little as it was) these Ladies and Gentlemen or their Parents or their Grandparents? Did I (if only just once) inflicted a humiliation of imposed any constraint whatsoever?
Our respected and beloved People and the entire world know that, during the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and up until their Putsch on March 18, 1970, all these Khmer “Republican men and women” or their Parents or Grandparents only received, are receiving only from me and from our monarchy: protection, multifaceted aids, honors, important positions, wealth, pride, deep affection.
And they reward me back with their Putsch, their sentence to death, with the confiscation of (my) properties and of the Khmer citizenship, and their horrible, so unfair and unending slanders which are extending all the way to the 21st century, which will extend and will undoubtedly intensify until my death and after my death.
I read also in my “Petit Robert,” HALLALI [mort in English: putting to death of the prey]: a hunting sound which announces that the prey being chased is in dire straits; this sound itself, or the note of the hunting horn which substitutes the sound.
To sound the mort: The last part of the hunting where the prey is put to death. To sound the mort of someone: to announce his/her ending.
Today, enthusiastic and greatly encouraged by the advent and the establishment in the current Cambodia of the UN ECCC, the Sihanouk-haters demand to sound the mort for N. Sihanouk, to send (me) to the famous UN ECCC which will put me to death.
o O o
Why this hatred which literally turn certain “Doctors” or otherwise to craziness?
I know the cause: their terrible sufferings and humiliations in April 1975, after 5 years of war which they wanted with all their heart and soul.
Mr. Sisowath Sirik Matak said: “The USA which succeeded in conquering the Moon, cannot lose this war in Cambodia.”
A few days before the total defeat of the USA and their lackeys in Cambodia (in April 1975), the same Sirik Matak wrote a letter to the US government, saying to the latter something like: “I believed in you. But here come the defeat and the humiliation. I (Sirik Matak) refuse to take exile in your country which I believed to be invincible. I accept to die here in my Country.”
What courage! What dignity! But nowadays, the “Doctors” and otherwise do not have such courage, such dignity. Not wanting to risk death or the least accident, they found that their “courage” and their “dignity” consist of sounding the mort of Sihanouk with the help of UN ECCC!!!
(Signed) Norodom Sihanouk
