Colonel Tran Quang TrieuWednesday, Jan 07, 2009
By Thach Thao – Translated by Phuong Lan
Saigon Giai Phong
Colonel Tran Quang Trieu, former deputy Commander- in- Chief of Army Corps 4, recalls the time, 30 years ago, when the army began to advance toward Phnom Penh to help local revolutionary armed forces against the Khmer Rouge and liberate Cambodia from its brutal regime.
Trieu at the time was deputy chief of staff of Infantry Division 7 of the Army Corps 4, the first unit of the army corps that landed in Cambodia.
“It was on January 6, 1979”. Trieu said, “We, soldiers of Battalion 4 of 165 Regiment, began to cross the Mekong River on two rubber boats with AK riffles in our hands. Before getting into one of the boats, Luc, head of Battalion 4, made the last farewells to our companions who were seeing us off. We were fully aware that it was a life-and-death mission and none of us thought that we would be lucky enough to survive.”
“One of the boats was fired upon and sunk after sailing just a dozen meters offshore, one soldier was wounded and carried by others back to the river bank,” added Trieu. “The remainder continued the journey to the other side of the river.”
At exactly 11:30 a.m. January 7, the Vietnamese voluntary troops joined with the revolutionary armed forces of Cambodia to carry out attacks on Phnom Penh. Despite the fierce counter-attack of several Khmer Rouge units, which were left behind in the capital to fight the revolutionary armed forces while regular troops were withdrawing, the revolutionary armed forces occupied all important areas in the capital.
At 12:00 p.m., Phnom Penh was liberated. Many Vietnamese soldiers, including Trieu’s comrades, sacrificed their lives in the battle.
After helping the Cambodian revolutionary armed forces remove the Khmer Rouge from power, the main tasks of the Vietnamese voluntary troops were to give food aid to local people and to help them get back home.
Trieu recalled, “Many locals were sick and starving. Since they couldn’t walk, we had to carry them on our backs to medical stations. As to the people who ran into the forests to escape the genocidal regime, we supplied food to them and persuaded them to go back to their abandoned villages. We shared our food and medicine with the locals”
A local woman offers gift to a Vietnamese voluntary soldier
In response to Uncle Ho’s troops’ heartiness, the local people regarded Vietnamese soldiers as their relatives. Trieu said, “One day, we came to Poi Pet, a town on the Cambodia – Thailand border. As soon as they saw Vietnamese voluntary troops’ vans, the locals rushed out to give us a warm greeting. We were treated with coconut milk and given a lot of bananas and pumpkins.”
One of his unforgettable memories, said Trieu, was that the locals had saved the lives of some of his comrades in a raid conducted by Khmer Rouge guerillas.
Trieu recalled, “Our platoon had withdrawn from the village, only a few sick soldiers and some of their comrades who had stayed to take care of them were camped in an underground hideout. When seeing Khmer Rouge guerillas approaching, some female villagers brought chairs from their homes, put them on the lid of the hideout and sat on them doing the knitting.”
While the guerillas were going past the hideout, one of the women even stopped knitting to breast feed her baby. The Vietnamese soldiers had a narrow escape from death because the women were calm and chatting together while the guerillas were looking at them. Trieu said, “They couldn’t smell something fishy about it!”
Trieu said, “That was a great sacrifice. If the enemies had found that the women were hiding Vietnamese soldiers, they would have killed them all.”
Trieu added, “Not only did they take care of wounded Vietnamese soldiers, the locals were ready to give their blood.”
Trieu said that 30 years had elapsed, but he always remembered the local people’s sincerity towards Uncle Ho’s troops during his time in Cambodia. It has always been an unforgettable time for him.
Trieu at the time was deputy chief of staff of Infantry Division 7 of the Army Corps 4, the first unit of the army corps that landed in Cambodia.
“It was on January 6, 1979”. Trieu said, “We, soldiers of Battalion 4 of 165 Regiment, began to cross the Mekong River on two rubber boats with AK riffles in our hands. Before getting into one of the boats, Luc, head of Battalion 4, made the last farewells to our companions who were seeing us off. We were fully aware that it was a life-and-death mission and none of us thought that we would be lucky enough to survive.”
“One of the boats was fired upon and sunk after sailing just a dozen meters offshore, one soldier was wounded and carried by others back to the river bank,” added Trieu. “The remainder continued the journey to the other side of the river.”
At exactly 11:30 a.m. January 7, the Vietnamese voluntary troops joined with the revolutionary armed forces of Cambodia to carry out attacks on Phnom Penh. Despite the fierce counter-attack of several Khmer Rouge units, which were left behind in the capital to fight the revolutionary armed forces while regular troops were withdrawing, the revolutionary armed forces occupied all important areas in the capital.
At 12:00 p.m., Phnom Penh was liberated. Many Vietnamese soldiers, including Trieu’s comrades, sacrificed their lives in the battle.
After helping the Cambodian revolutionary armed forces remove the Khmer Rouge from power, the main tasks of the Vietnamese voluntary troops were to give food aid to local people and to help them get back home.
Trieu recalled, “Many locals were sick and starving. Since they couldn’t walk, we had to carry them on our backs to medical stations. As to the people who ran into the forests to escape the genocidal regime, we supplied food to them and persuaded them to go back to their abandoned villages. We shared our food and medicine with the locals”
A local woman offers gift to a Vietnamese voluntary soldierIn response to Uncle Ho’s troops’ heartiness, the local people regarded Vietnamese soldiers as their relatives. Trieu said, “One day, we came to Poi Pet, a town on the Cambodia – Thailand border. As soon as they saw Vietnamese voluntary troops’ vans, the locals rushed out to give us a warm greeting. We were treated with coconut milk and given a lot of bananas and pumpkins.”
One of his unforgettable memories, said Trieu, was that the locals had saved the lives of some of his comrades in a raid conducted by Khmer Rouge guerillas.
Trieu recalled, “Our platoon had withdrawn from the village, only a few sick soldiers and some of their comrades who had stayed to take care of them were camped in an underground hideout. When seeing Khmer Rouge guerillas approaching, some female villagers brought chairs from their homes, put them on the lid of the hideout and sat on them doing the knitting.”
While the guerillas were going past the hideout, one of the women even stopped knitting to breast feed her baby. The Vietnamese soldiers had a narrow escape from death because the women were calm and chatting together while the guerillas were looking at them. Trieu said, “They couldn’t smell something fishy about it!”
Trieu said, “That was a great sacrifice. If the enemies had found that the women were hiding Vietnamese soldiers, they would have killed them all.”
Trieu added, “Not only did they take care of wounded Vietnamese soldiers, the locals were ready to give their blood.”
Trieu said that 30 years had elapsed, but he always remembered the local people’s sincerity towards Uncle Ho’s troops during his time in Cambodia. It has always been an unforgettable time for him.
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The Untold Truth of Jan 07, 1979.
The event of Jan 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 view Jan 07, 1979 as a full scale invasion with the 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 machine.
At the center of these debates, the very same question has been raised repeatedly. What was the real motive(s) leading to the Jan 07, 1979 event? To these days, the answers to that question not only remain 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 Jan 07 event based on personal experience, available historical and researched data, and 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 Jan 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 consequently 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 ammunitions 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 Mar 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 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 under the 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. Soa Phim may have opposed the Pol Pot’s killing regime, 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 suggest that the real motive of January 07, 1979 event was for Vietnam 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 today strongly supports that argument.
If many Khmer people lives were saved from the KR systematic executions by the January 07 event, it was simply an unexpected or accidental coincidence. For that reason, Khmer people celebrates the January 07, 1979 event only as the end of the KR killing regime, but never as a recognition of the Vietnamese intervention.
As it happened with other events in history, Vietnam through its agents and sympathizers can present the event of Jan 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.
Khmer Academy
Thanks Colonel, but no thanks. We just don't know why you were in our country in the first place. We really don't care, if you came or not. As far as we know, you people or just a trouble maker and a robber. Your behind needs to get out of Cambodia and Kos Tral, please.
Also, please post openly Colonel what did the hun sen's government pay you and your army to come to our land? or in their words to rescue us. We already know that they had paid you with their lives and Kos tral, but what else?
The colonel may have sincerity but the Goverment of Vietname, china, and khmer rouge are playing trick with the world!
May god destroy the evil communists!!!!!
in eighty, viets and cpp also celebrated 17 april 75 because both dates 7 january and 17 april marked viet glory and victory but later the viets order to ban 17 april celebration scaring to damn its reputation and transform the (yuons) savers into murderers, see why ?
of course, cambodia is celebrating the liberation from the infamous KR regime that people only know death and dying, pain and suffering, etc... the celebration is not about vietnam, it's khmer people rejoicing because they get to start fresh and anew. however, the invasion is something else. remember the vietnamese is no american hero, no european hero, etc. to the khmer people. yes, they did help the revolutionary khmer fought the infamous KR regime until they topple. the vietnamese are stupid people, they invaded cambodia and imposed strict vietnamese laws on cambodia. they also tried to impose their ugly culture and costume on cambodia and tried to force khmer people to speak vietnamese. they also pillaged raw materials from cambodia as they needed raw material to make steel, and illegally cut down khmer forest and trees to take back to their country. their assistance to cambodia did not come without a prize, they stole from khmer people and sent a lot of their criminals to cambodia. of course, they have no good intention for cambodia. that's why khmer people resisted them, although we were glad they came to our aide in time of need like when they help topple the other stupid, idiot regime, the crazy KR that is! anyway, the vietnamese were dumb to try to impose on khmer culture, tradition, etc... that was and has always been their biggest mistake when dealing with cambodia. unlike the american, the europeans, etc..., the vietnamese gov't tried to force khmer people to wear vietnamese costume, speak the vietnamese language, etc... which they forgot that doing so in a land they invaded to the local khmer people is very unpopular with khmer people, of course. you don't invade a foreign country and force upon that country's people your own costume, language, policy, etc without regard to the local custom, culture, tradition, etc...! that's why vietnamese was very unpopular in cambodia; it's not that we don't appreciate their help, we just don't like the way they impose their own culture, costume, language, etc on cambodia, that's all! the vietnamese need to learn how the american and europeans, etc, that you don't try to destroy a culture, a country that is so different from yours like what they did to cambodia; and i have read khmer history which indicated that this wasn't the first time the vietnamese have tried but failed, of course, to force khmer people to become vietnamese. i mean, it's good that they helped us to oust the KR from power, but they need to learn the khmer language, culture, tradition, costume, and not to send their unwanted criminals or steal cambodia raw materials, etc... that's the big difference. otherwise than that, of course, khmer people glad the KR regime was toppled permanently. so, i hope they realized what they did to cambodia like what i've said above! god bless cambodia.
I do not know him, he was so lowclass. I was a general since with Pol pot!
Hun Xen, PhD /Hanoi
the vietnamese need to learn the skill of diplomacy as they failed again and again in cambodia. other countries can help in the name of humanitarian, etc..., however, they don't try to impose or force the local people to speak vietnamese, wear the ugly vietnamese chinese-influent costume, etc... what just what the vietnamese tried to do to cambodia which was very very unpopular amongst the culturally, traditionally rich khmer people, of course. and they failed time and again, and this wasn't the first time they tried to impose their culture and language on khmer people. when are they going to learn to respect khmer ways or the highway, especially when they invaded cambodia and stole lands and raw materials from cambodia to make it their own. what thieves their race really are! cambodia did not do that to them, so, what gave them the right to do it to cambodia? god bless cambodia.
khmers must remember the mekong delta (khmer krom land) and koh tral! too bad for the vietnamese, the loss of the mekong delta and koh tral alone made the vietnamese unpopular in cambodia, naturally, of course!
Bon Voyage, Tran!
MAY YOU REST IN PEACE!
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1:18 AM
What fuck are you talking about
the mekong delta? you are out of mind? we are talking about jan.7, but not your shit down there.
Let us celebrate 10/23/1991 is the REAL PEACK OF CAMBODIAN.
We all know that 1/7/1991 is a FAKE peace for Cambodia. This fake peace installed by Viets.
Red-Ant
As long as ,there is a sharp contrast of opinion on Jan 7th. I believe CPP will be in contol forever.Only people who had lived under polpot knew so well about this historic event.The question is ,will POLPOT and his regime still hold to power until today had there was no invasion ?
khmer rouge always rule over Cambodia and imposed its rules over Khmer life. Viets only changed few of khmer rouge leaders that being used, soiled and become an barrier for the suit of viet expansionist policy. simple political strategy
Simple political strategy my ass.
To 4:09AM
What people are you talking about who lived under Pol Pot? I was living under the Pol Pot and the Vietcong occupation!
The fact that AH HUN SEN and his CPP party continue to insist on celebrating the January 7, 1979 is because it is him and his CPP party has benefited from it!
I believe AH HUN SEN wouldn't give a fuck if the January 7, 1979 didn't benefit him in anyway!
By the way, it is the human nature to do things that only benefit them and only them and no other people! AH HUN SEN is being too selfish and that will be his weakness!
4:09AM - Like many of us, my family and I lived and suffered great lost during the KR regime, but I would never condone the Vietnamese invasion in 1979. You raised a valid question, but we can also ask - had Hanoi not created and helped KR movement, would KR would come to life and did the massive killing? Had Hanoi not created and helped KR movement in the first, would it be any need for the Yuons to invade us in the 1979?
There's no liberations people! it was invasions...remember!!
Congratulation Colonel Trieu for your achievement for your Uncle Ho's expansionism in subjugating Cambodia into Vientam.
But your mission is not complete because Uncle Ho is death and you are going to die too.
Vietnamese next generation will destroy Ho's will into ashes
Yuon liberated Khmer as a goodwill gesture ? fat chance ! A liberator wouldn't truck off all Khmer national treasures to srok yuon.
A liberator wouldn't install a puppet and colonise it for ten years before overseas khmer ganged up on them to kick them out. Most leaders of the resistance were from overseas back then.
Yes, I think we should celebrate the day, but rename it to something like Peace Day, Historical Day, etc.
For those who still reject the 07/01/79, maybe you would love to still have Pol Pot in the power and kill all the khmers until the last one....
I'm not Academy person like some who believe in Pol Pot so bad, decided to return from France to Cambodia just to be killed by Pol Pot. Don't tell me it was Vietnamese who killed them at that time.
Because the liar Pol Pot fucked it up so bad, it doesn't matter whether it was the Invasion or Liberation. The bottomline is during that time Pol Pot lived in luxury while civilians lived in hell. I wish Viet arrived a few days earlier so some of my family members would be still alive until now. They were executed a few weeks before 07/01/1979. You who hate Viet's liberation, why didn't you stand up fight KR at that time? All Khmer living under Pol Pot were cowards. No one dare to standup.
Khmer in USA.
Happy Freedom Day (Jan 7) to all!
Thanks to Vietnam!
Thanks to PM Hun Sen!
Look Mr. Khmer in USA! Please don't take other Khmer in United States along with you, just you o.k!
How you do think half of the 2 millions of our people were dying? They were standing up to those KR MF*cker o.k!, but they could only do it individually. They couldn't have a group or network like you were in some other places. They tried and they were dead. Everyone was under the total control of a psyco. You dare, you're dead with a psyco and one by one until 2 millions were gone. Everyone inside were wondering the same, why didn't you people in France or America do anything to get us out from there? 3 years and 8 months was along time time for you to decide. You know dawn well. There was zero f*cking communication between us. We never said that you were a coward. You were probably lost and confused in a new land. You were o.k, but since you said so, why didn't you rush you rear end to the Khmer or American's embassy in the US or France and demand to know what happen in Cambodia?? Why didn't you? You were living in a freedom country and those poor people were not. They were at the mercy place of a Khmer Rouge pal. You need to shut up and rethink again. The last thing we want, was to see those vietnamese faces as our savior on Jan 7th. 1979. We wanted to see you, but where? where were you brother???!!!
10:11am,
You should also go and insult 1.3 billions people in Communist China and more in Vietnam and in Cuba as well. Not just in Cambodia.
Please don't forget that Mr. Pen Sovann and our current government were the people inside Cambodia between 1795-1979. They might not did everything right in January of 1979, but they did do something and got us out from Khmer Rouge.
Our sincere gratitude,
Ordinary Khmers
maybe khmer people need to reform our way of giving gratitude, especially to vietnam! you know, giving too much credit to gratitude, sometimes, can be bad for the country, especially from politicians because not only that can create corruption in some forms, it can also divide and causes a lot of resentment among our khmer people who happened to have different opinions about this whole thing. please think hard about the bad consequences before we do something that is detrimental to national interest. thank you.
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