Viet Nam Human Rights
Undeniable role of Vietnamese soldiers in Cambodia’s victory
31/12/18
The role of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers in Cambodia’s victory over the Pol Pot genocidal regime on January 7, 1979 was undeniable, journalists have said.
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He made the statement in a recent interview granted to correspondents of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) in Phnom Penh ahead of the upcoming 40th anniversary of the victory.
The people of Cambodia and the world have acknowledged that if there would not have been the victory on January 7, 1979, there would not have been the survival of the Cambodian nation, he said.
“And without the assistance of Vietnamese brothers and comrades, Cambodia could not have gained the final victory and achievements today”, Keo Chandara said, stressing that: “This is an indisputable fact”.
While evaluating the role of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers in the victory on January 7, 1979, journalist Teav Sarak Mony, Editor-in-chief of Rasmei Kampuchea (Light of Cambodia), quoted Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen during his recent official visit to Vietnam as saying that Vietnam’s decisive role in assisting Cambodia is an undeniable fact.
Without the victory and the support from Vietnamese voluntary soldiers as well as the Vietnamese Party, State, Government and people during the 1979-1989 period, the Cambodian nation and people could not have survived and developed as today, especially after the liberation day, Cambodia had to face two major matters: rebuilding the nation and preventing the return of the Pol Pot genocide, he said.
Australian journalist Peter Starr, communication advisor of Cambodia’s National Assembly Office, said the victory was considered the most important event of all Cambodian people as it marked the country’s freedom and escape from the genocidal regime.
He added that without the help of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers, there could have been more dozens or even hundreds of thousands of Cambodian people killed under the Pol Pot regime.
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The Khmer Rouge's name, and that of its main leader, Pol Pot, have become a short-hand for systematic cruelty and horror on an enormous scale. The reality is almost certainly impossible to imagine for people who were not there.
The war in neighboring Vietnam helped shape Cambodian politics, and many historians now believe that a U.S. bombing campaign in their country drove many rural Cambodians into the arms of the radical ideology.
On April 17, 1975, two years after the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, Phnom Penh fell to Khmer Rouge troops and U.S.-supported government forces surrendered.
As anti-Vietnamese paranoia set in, even Khmer Rouge loyalists found themselves executed.
The Khmer Rouge's attempts to create a completely self-sufficient agrarian society led to thousands of deaths from starvation and overwork, and a lack of imported medicine led many others to die unnecessarily from diseases like malaria.
A Vietnamese invasion eventually forced the Khmer Rouge to give up its control of the central government in 1979.
The long, difficult path of the tribunal had already been a source of frustration to many in Cambodia, in no small part due to opposition from current Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge soldier himself.
the rule of the Pol Pot genocidal regime was a dark period in the country’s history.
The story also repeated his appreciation of enormous assistance from Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who responded to the call of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, an organisation representing the Cambodian people’s will, in the struggle against the Khmer Rouge.
At a recent celebration of the triumph, Cambodian Prime Minister and CPP President Samdech Hun Sen said that glorious victory timely saved Cambodia and helped its people retake all human rights and become the master of their own life.
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