By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
04 January 2010
Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) on Monday warned critics not to oppose the upcoming Jan. 7 anniversary, which marks the ouster of the Khmer Rouge by Vietnamese forces in 1979.
“Jan. 7 did not make anyone become enemies, and Jan. 7 belongs to the Cambodian people and all of Cambodia,” Hun Sen said, speaking at the inauguration of a high school in Battambang town.
He asked that no one “oppose” the upcoming anniversary, which is a government holiday, saying that the day had opened the way to the Paris Peace Accords, in 1991.
After pushing the Khmer Rouge from power, the Vietnamese installed a government, including then foreign minister Hun Sen and many of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party members. The CPP regards Jan. 7 as a day of victory and a rebirth of the Cambodian people.
The Vietnamese-backed regime began a long civil war with the Khmer Rouge guerrillas until Vietnam withdrew in 1989, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The UN intervened in 1991, putting an end to the war and establishing an election in 1993.
The Jan. 7 anniversary has since become a political flashpoint, because the decade-long occupation still rankles many Cambodians. Every year, leaflets appear in markets in different parts of the country that oppose the celebration of Jan. 7.
Leaflets were found in Takeo town on Monday denouncing the day.
“The whole world and the nation thinks that Jan. 7 is the Vietnamese invasion,” said Kem Sokha, head of the Human Rights Party, which is part of an opposition coalition. “In fact, the United Nations did not recognize the government at the time, because the United Nations thought that it was a Vietnamese invasion. So it is history that the world recognizes.
Original report from Phnom Penh
04 January 2010
Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) on Monday warned critics not to oppose the upcoming Jan. 7 anniversary, which marks the ouster of the Khmer Rouge by Vietnamese forces in 1979.
“Jan. 7 did not make anyone become enemies, and Jan. 7 belongs to the Cambodian people and all of Cambodia,” Hun Sen said, speaking at the inauguration of a high school in Battambang town.
He asked that no one “oppose” the upcoming anniversary, which is a government holiday, saying that the day had opened the way to the Paris Peace Accords, in 1991.
After pushing the Khmer Rouge from power, the Vietnamese installed a government, including then foreign minister Hun Sen and many of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party members. The CPP regards Jan. 7 as a day of victory and a rebirth of the Cambodian people.
The Vietnamese-backed regime began a long civil war with the Khmer Rouge guerrillas until Vietnam withdrew in 1989, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The UN intervened in 1991, putting an end to the war and establishing an election in 1993.
The Jan. 7 anniversary has since become a political flashpoint, because the decade-long occupation still rankles many Cambodians. Every year, leaflets appear in markets in different parts of the country that oppose the celebration of Jan. 7.
Leaflets were found in Takeo town on Monday denouncing the day.
“The whole world and the nation thinks that Jan. 7 is the Vietnamese invasion,” said Kem Sokha, head of the Human Rights Party, which is part of an opposition coalition. “In fact, the United Nations did not recognize the government at the time, because the United Nations thought that it was a Vietnamese invasion. So it is history that the world recognizes.
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“The whole world and the nation thinks that Jan. 7 is the Vietnamese invasion,” said Kem Sokha, head of the Human Rights Party, which is part of an opposition coalition. “In fact, the United Nations did not recognize the government at the time, because the United Nations thought that it was aVietnamese invasion. So it is history that the world recognizes.
Why would UN "thought", it is for sure is an invasion.
So let Cambodians died like rats under the Khmer Rouge Genocide is a good deal?? Ok, if the Vietnamese did not come to Cambodia, do you think there is still a country as Kampuchea today? Wake up, people
Right dear little brain, who have help Khmer Rouge come to power in Cambodia ? Viet Con or Vietnam.
Who have make a secret plan to kill Khmer people ? Vietnam .
Who have support Heng Sarin,chea sim and Hun sen ? Vietnam .
Well, without 1993 at Paris conderence for peace. Cambodia still a poor country.
Right now,who is master of Cambodia? Vietnam .
Thank you very much, dear brother Vietnam come to help Cambodian 's people from Pol Pot( ? ) please don't robb Khmer Land any more.
For information : When Vietnam army come to help Cambodia,they robb thousand and thousand kg of gold,diamand and so many thing by car and by ship .
From: Lost of Bâton.fr
3:05 PM, If you read enough history books you will know that Vietnam was the one who created the Khmer Rouge and helped the Khmer Rouge to come to power in Cambodia in 1975, then helped the KR to kill nearly 2 million Khmer lives.
Hun Sen, Chea , Heng Samrin and other CPP leaders were former KR leaders who had bloods in their hands.
Don't thank 7 Jan. too much because it was an invasion day after the Viet engineered the killing of nearly 2 million Khmers.
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