King-Father holding hands with his great friend, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong of Vietnam who later ordered the more-than-one-decade long occupation of King-Father's beloved Cambodia. Ieng Sary can be seen in the background overlooking the friendship exchange between the two great friends.
Translated from French by Tola EkHistory
During the 5-year war (1970-1975) in which they were responsible, the “Lonnolians” (with Long Boret at their helm) made unheard of efforts to make the world believe that N. Sihanouk was definitively rejected by the entire nation and by the entire Khmer People, and that, fighting against their (dirty) “Khmer Republic” in Cambodia, there were only Vietcong and North Vietnamese (sic!!).The historical Truth was as follows:
1- Between March 1970 and 1973, there was a majority of Sihanoukist-Khmer people who were fighting against the Lonnolians, the Americans and the blue South Vietnamese. The PR of China did not give arms nor money (these were given to the Khmer Rouges only) to the Sihanoukist Resistant Fighters who were militarily trained and armed by the North Vietnamese in conformance to the orders given by my great friends, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong and General Vo Nguyen Giap.
2- Between 1973 and 1975, the Khmer Rouge people (Polpotians, IengSaryists, NuonCheaians) put into application, “from A to Z,” their killing “Program” against Sihanoukists who remained “faithful to the end” to their King-Father.
3- The Lonnolians (with Long Boret at their helm) saw, in 1975, the crumbling – like a card castle – of their coward propaganda in which, in Cambodia, the only enemies of the “ Khmer Republic” were the Vietcong and North Vietnamese, because the historical winners were Khmer people of pure breed, (they were) Rouges (communists) but Khmer people.
(Signed) N. Sihanouk
May 2008
