Source: Deum Ampil newspaper
Reported in English by Khmerization
At the same time as an expert witness testifying in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal that "Prime Minister Hun Sen used to be a member of the Khmer Rouge regime, Mr. Heng Samrin (pictured), another ex-Khmer Rouge leader and an ex-Head of State of the Vietnam-backed regime from 1979-1991, has revealed for the first time the origin of the anti-Khmer Rouge movement in the late 1970s, reports Deum Ampil.
Mr. Heng Samrin said 24th May that the anti-Pol Pot movement was formed in Anlong Chrey village, Kok commune in Ponhea Krek district of Kampong Cham province in 1977.
Heng Samrin said that Anlong Chrey was a village which received the most heavy destruction during the American bombings and during the anti-Khmer Rouge resistance.
He said that the "American imperialists and its lackeys" conducted the heaviest bombardments of the Ponhea Krek district, especially Anlong Chrey village. According to Heng Samrin, in 1964, 12 villagers were tragically killed by the American bombings near his home in the village of Anlong Chrey.
Beside the event of the 1964 bombings, Anlong Chrey was the historical birthplace of the "United Front for National Salvation" and a significant base of the anti-Pol Pot movement where many nationalist leaders were based. He said: "Anlong Chrey is a village where all the anti-Khmer Rouge forces gathered and planned their strategy to topple the Khmer Rouge regime. The creation of the armed movement in order to form a "national front" was supported by the people from Anlong Chrey to as far as Snuol district. After the armed movement was formed, there was a universal declaration of the creation in Snuol district (of the United Front for National Salvation of 2nd December, 1978)."
Mr. Heng Samrin, ex-Head of State of Cambodia from 1979-1991, claimed that during the Khmer Rouge regime he was the "commander of divivion 4" based in Anlong Chrey village in the Eastern Zone where families of the key members of the Khmer Rouge, such as the families of Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and his wife Ing Thirith, Pol Pot and his wife Khieu Ponnary and Yun Yat, wife of KR Minister of Defence Son Sen, had visited. The wife of Nop Bophann, editor of "Pracheachun" newspaper, who was shot dead (in the village?) had also visited the village.
Reported in English by Khmerization
At the same time as an expert witness testifying in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal that "Prime Minister Hun Sen used to be a member of the Khmer Rouge regime, Mr. Heng Samrin (pictured), another ex-Khmer Rouge leader and an ex-Head of State of the Vietnam-backed regime from 1979-1991, has revealed for the first time the origin of the anti-Khmer Rouge movement in the late 1970s, reports Deum Ampil.
Mr. Heng Samrin said 24th May that the anti-Pol Pot movement was formed in Anlong Chrey village, Kok commune in Ponhea Krek district of Kampong Cham province in 1977.
Heng Samrin said that Anlong Chrey was a village which received the most heavy destruction during the American bombings and during the anti-Khmer Rouge resistance.
He said that the "American imperialists and its lackeys" conducted the heaviest bombardments of the Ponhea Krek district, especially Anlong Chrey village. According to Heng Samrin, in 1964, 12 villagers were tragically killed by the American bombings near his home in the village of Anlong Chrey.
Beside the event of the 1964 bombings, Anlong Chrey was the historical birthplace of the "United Front for National Salvation" and a significant base of the anti-Pol Pot movement where many nationalist leaders were based. He said: "Anlong Chrey is a village where all the anti-Khmer Rouge forces gathered and planned their strategy to topple the Khmer Rouge regime. The creation of the armed movement in order to form a "national front" was supported by the people from Anlong Chrey to as far as Snuol district. After the armed movement was formed, there was a universal declaration of the creation in Snuol district (of the United Front for National Salvation of 2nd December, 1978)."
Mr. Heng Samrin, ex-Head of State of Cambodia from 1979-1991, claimed that during the Khmer Rouge regime he was the "commander of divivion 4" based in Anlong Chrey village in the Eastern Zone where families of the key members of the Khmer Rouge, such as the families of Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and his wife Ing Thirith, Pol Pot and his wife Khieu Ponnary and Yun Yat, wife of KR Minister of Defence Son Sen, had visited. The wife of Nop Bophann, editor of "Pracheachun" newspaper, who was shot dead (in the village?) had also visited the village.
2 comments:
Heng Samrin glosses over the fact that his hands were bloodied as he was a senior Khmer Rouge during the years of slaughter of the Khmer people and that he faithfully served ANKAR throughout that period.
His subsequent defection to the Vietnamese is well understood as was his short lived reward.
Heng Samrin was in turn outwitted by the wily Hun Sen,another recalcitrant Khmer Rouge cadre who is also pearly white in retrospect.
Chhkai Youn Hanoi Samdach Hen Xamrin!!!
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