Cambodia: THE REAL MURDERERS ARE YUON ANGKAR LUER (4/6) [EN]

Was Norodom Norindrapong really a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge when he and Prince Sihamoni were called to return home from overseas by receiving a faked telegram had summoned them back to Phnom Penh in April, 1976? As Prince Norodom Norindrapong clearly confessed to his Khmer children 2 years ago on Radio Free Asia, which was replayed on 9 October, 2003, after he died on 8:

"Pol Pot was a true nationalist. Pol Pot used to leading his DK army fought against Yuons. And Pol Pot's regime was to have Yuons who had hidden inside to kill too many Khmers. And all good committees who were murdered by Yuons in the country. Prince Norodom Sihanouk who was under house arrest, but the DK leaders like Khieu Samphan, and Sdech (Prince Norodom Sihanouk) often made a visit to DK cooperative. We went to every province, we were not to be imprisoned; I accompanied him to see the hydraulic system of dikes, to see factory workers, to see workers' living, had food, to have houses built. They didn't bully us. We were comfortably served with food. They let us have servants. We all-royal families went to see DK cooperatives. And I followed up with DK Radio was that I saw DK regime that fairly served workers and farmers. And from 1976-79; we went to Siem Reap, Kompong Som, Kompong Speu, Kompong Cham, Sisophon...etc."

And recently, interviewed with RFA, 30 July, 2003, Chhang Yuk clearly told us that the Vietnamese shipped arms to Khmer Rouge in 1976. He's got documents being signed by Vietnamese.

In fact, she has denied these facts in person, right here in Sweden. In 1980, she told a reporter in Stockholm, "I admit, as I told you, that there were excesses, but those excesses had been ordered from Hanoi." Her husband, Khmer Rouge deputy premier and minister of Foreign Affairs comrade Ieng Sary, telling a reporter that, "We weren't aware of life at the grassroots that is the way murders are able to happen. But the murderers were Vietnamese agents."

As the wanton ruination brutalized the peasantry the Khmer Rouge had little difficulty in recruiting the many very young men that it sought. Youths, even children, were the desired trainees; their young minds would readily accepts the simple, savage shibboleths handed down from the remote leadership, who demanded unthinking, immediate obedience to the most bizarre of orders. These ignorant young recruits quickly had any concept of good or evil, cruelty or kindness erased from their lives. The high command or source known as Angkar issued instructions that were followed simplicity, no matter how extreme.

In the south and south-east, Khmer Rouge zone commanders had a closer relationship with and reliance on the Vietnamese who had nurtured them for some years and still provided arms and support.

Chann Sokhom, who was the principal organizer of the "spontaneous demonstrations" of 1970, said, with ill concealed contempt for my ignorance, as follows:- "The Khmer Rouge and Sihanoukists do no exist. They were figments of the propaganda and imagination of Mr Sihanouk hiding in Peking. "The only forces assigned against the Khmer Republic were the North Vietnamese and Vietcong. These forces occasionally had the odd Khmer among them and they also killed Khmers and left their bodies on the battlefields to trick the westerners and non republican fools."

This issue remains complicated and intricate, because there is so much involved concerning certain countries, including powerful ones. For example, Mr Benson Samay, Defense lawyer for Ta Mok, in his interview on television, stated that "...Ta Mok will implicate people, including U.S. Secretary of State [Henry Kissinger] based upon existing documents...and leaders of certain countries...."

Far be it from me to conceal the sometimes sublime heroism of my Khmer Rouge compatriots (in their capacity as fighters). But it is unseemly for Kampuchean patriots to make themselves look ridiculous to the whole world with the bald-faced assertion that "with kitchen knives, bows and arrow, and a few old rifles, we were able from the start to destroy hundreds of American cannons, airplanes, fighter-helicopter, and tanks." Distorting the facts in this way means stripping the heroic Khmer Rouge yotheas' real exploits of their credibility.

Let us render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. Let us frankly admit that in the so-called Khmer Rouge victories of 1971, 1972, and 1973 over American, South Vietnamese, and Lon Nol forces, at the Cambodia-Vietnam border as well as within the country-the battles of Kirirom, Pich Nil (Route 4), Kompong Cham, Kompong Thom (Chenla I, Chenla II)-Vietnamese artillery and tanks, as well as their numerous infantry divisions, made a very important contribution, not to say a decisive one. For until the end of the war (April, 1975), the Khmer Rouge army never came up with any real armoured units or artillery.

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[michmanusa]

AhmekKhmer, did u watch this video? At 7:40 to the end of the video, there's a long convoy of trucks that bring food to the Cambodian people from Vietnam. What do you say about this? You probably ate this food from Vietnam too didn't you? that's how you survived the famine and today turn around and bite the hand that feed you.

[AhmekKhmer]

michmanusa, yeah an invasion on the end of harvesting season the already food in Cambodia had to be trucked on these Vietnamese truck then drive pass a camera and you saw it. lol nice try next time do more research on it.

[myagent21]

@michmanusa . It is pointless trying to have a constructive dailogue with AhmekKhmer. He is a Khmer Rouge enthusiast and again, his so-called research is more like Khmer Rouge propaganda.

[AhmekKhmer]

myagent21, you call me a Khmer Rouge this and Khmer Rouge that but you still live and cooperate with those Khmer Rouge. Did you notice any of it at all?

[vannath242425]

@AhmekKhmer , you're doing a wonderful job of spreading the truth. People who hate on u are not Khmer.

[AhmekKhmer]

@vannath242425

The more they hate they more right I am, I think

[BlueSpitFire28]

nice work man. my grandma went threw this. her name was Kim Eng. she told me alot about this like how people died and what they feed like only 12-34 grains of rice...

she survive trying to take her 7 kids to tailand to escape. she made it but most of her children barly did. i didnt ask if any of them died but i knew that my father survive all i know is that my grandma is a hero for me and i love her very much.

[PassionateGoth]

Did you also know that UN soldiers are also known for the crimes of rape and murder. Alot of people in different countries, especially africa have reported young girls; some as young as 8 yrs old being raped, killed or forced to be prostitues for UN soldiers. Doing sexual favors for food and/or clothes. When I read that, I found it more than disgusting. The UN is suppose to be protecting people not commiting crimes against them.

[hoahong19]

Chinese teached: destroy all, kill all, burn all.....

[Norlake]

(1)Thank you very much for you interest in Cambodia chronicle story .I was living there ,in Pol Pot reign ,as their POW parolee . What I saw the situation in that time comparing to what you and I see in various media are very different.Vietnamese are very good in propaganda for their own interest of taking control the South East Asia .USA withdraw from Vietnam in 1975 was not because military ...(2)..

[xxxdieselyyy]

@xxxdieselyyy ------5-------->Even if the Vietnamese WERE destabilizing the Cambodian regime of Pol Pot, I don't blame them at all. I am NOT anti Khmer, but Pol Pot and those top cadre who designed this abolish currency, abolish most industry, abolish economy were ultra liberals from Paris *sigh*

[xxxdieselyyy]

@xxxdieselyyy --------4----------->I wouldn't blame the Vietnamese for toppling a government that abolishes an economy. Especially considering a landborne border shared between Cambodia and Vietnam.

Agrarian SOcialism don't work because Cambodia had 21 mil ppl in 20th century, in Khmer historical times, no mo' than 2-5 mil max. So the stuff that would work then won't work now.

To accomodate that congestion is what industrial infra and economics is all about. Pol Pot = disaster.

[xxxdieselyyy]

@xxxdieselyyy -------3------------>That is because any economic planner will tell u that having a bad economy causes an influx of people, having NO ECONOMY will more or less cause the entire nation to migrate. If Pol Pot was allowed to go thru w/ his B.S., from a very logical Vietnamese point of view- that would mean a HUUUUUUGE influx of 'fugees from Cambodia to Vietnam, also to Thailand. But Thailand had a much stricter border patrol prog w/ US help, while Viet was still recovering from war...

[xxxdieselyyy]

@xxxdieselyyy -------2---------->An economic proposal should've been drawn from that, instead of just dismantling the economy. Without an ecvonomy how would people have survived????

I AM NOT SURE if the Vietnamese hand in "divide and conquer" but I WILL tell u that if say- a Pakistani leader did this Year Zero programme, If I was the Comrade Dear Leader of India, I WOULD destabilize the FRAG out of Pakistan and topple the regime asap.

[xxxdieselyyy]

Bro, I appreciate u r documentaries, it shows something which I would have NEVER seen in India......but to be frank, disbanding the economy and industrial infrastructure was something the red scarves did, isin't it? That order to destroy money, infrastructure and the economy was ordered by Pol Pot, not the Vietnamese.

If you did that, OF COURSE, your country will b devastated! Pol Pot could've help agrarian by setting an agrarian friendly GDP emphasizing GINI- like what the Soviets did.

[GoofyBoa]

ah maan thats sad!