Hun Sen inaugurating Highway 78.By Khmerization
Source: DAP News
Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaking on the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Khmer Republic, strongly attacked Gen. Lon Nol for staging a coup d'etat against the then Prince Sihanouk and declared Cambodia a republic that have brought wars and misery to Cambodia and the Cambodian people, reports Deum Ampil.
Forty years ago, on 18th March 1970, Gen. Lon Nol, backed by the United States, staged a bloodless coup against Prince Sihanouk and declared the Khmer Republic with himself as president holding the title of a marshal.
Speaking during an inauguration ceremony of Highway 78 connecting the provincial town of Banlung in Rattanakiri to the Vietnamese border on 18th, Mr. Hun Sen said the coup 40 years ago brought wars and destruction to Cambodia. "When I come to inaugurate this highway, it is not a coincidence. The 18th of March 40 years ago was the time when Cambodia plunged into wars. On the 18th of March 2010 we want to tell the world that we are at peace, we have developments and we have abundance throughout Cambodia", he declared.
After Sihanouk was toppled in 1970, war broke out in Cambodia. The Khmer Republic of Marshal Lon Nol collapsed on 17th April 1975 when the Khmer Rouge forces launched their final assault on Phnom Penh. The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia for nearly 4 years and nearly 2 million Cambodian have died of starvation, exhaustion and executions. The killings only ended when the Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia and sent the Khmer Rouge troops and officials fleeing to the Cambodian-Thai borders on 7th January 1979. All the Cambodian warring factions agreed to lay down their arms under the UN-brokered peace agreements on 23rd October 1991. In 1993 the royalist Funcinpec Party won the UN-supervised election but street fighting broke out again on 5th July 1997 when Hun Sen staged a successful coup to oust his Co-Prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh from power. The war lasted until 1998 when the warring factions agreed to compete in the election and when the Khmer Rouge Movement disintegrated and collapsed.
Source: DAP News
Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaking on the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Khmer Republic, strongly attacked Gen. Lon Nol for staging a coup d'etat against the then Prince Sihanouk and declared Cambodia a republic that have brought wars and misery to Cambodia and the Cambodian people, reports Deum Ampil.
Forty years ago, on 18th March 1970, Gen. Lon Nol, backed by the United States, staged a bloodless coup against Prince Sihanouk and declared the Khmer Republic with himself as president holding the title of a marshal.
Speaking during an inauguration ceremony of Highway 78 connecting the provincial town of Banlung in Rattanakiri to the Vietnamese border on 18th, Mr. Hun Sen said the coup 40 years ago brought wars and destruction to Cambodia. "When I come to inaugurate this highway, it is not a coincidence. The 18th of March 40 years ago was the time when Cambodia plunged into wars. On the 18th of March 2010 we want to tell the world that we are at peace, we have developments and we have abundance throughout Cambodia", he declared.
After Sihanouk was toppled in 1970, war broke out in Cambodia. The Khmer Republic of Marshal Lon Nol collapsed on 17th April 1975 when the Khmer Rouge forces launched their final assault on Phnom Penh. The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia for nearly 4 years and nearly 2 million Cambodian have died of starvation, exhaustion and executions. The killings only ended when the Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia and sent the Khmer Rouge troops and officials fleeing to the Cambodian-Thai borders on 7th January 1979. All the Cambodian warring factions agreed to lay down their arms under the UN-brokered peace agreements on 23rd October 1991. In 1993 the royalist Funcinpec Party won the UN-supervised election but street fighting broke out again on 5th July 1997 when Hun Sen staged a successful coup to oust his Co-Prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh from power. The war lasted until 1998 when the warring factions agreed to compete in the election and when the Khmer Rouge Movement disintegrated and collapsed.
3 comments:
If it hadn't been Gen. Lon Nol's coup d'etat, who knows what Cambodia would have become, another Champa, perhaps. It was rumored that coup d'etat was secretly set up between Sihanouk and Gen. Lon Nol for the sake of kicking the Viet Cong out of Cambodia. The Viet Cong were infiltrating and hiding and multiplying in Cambodia. Cambodia was used by the Viet Cong to stock supply to support the fighter in the south. After the coup, there were of cache of weapons hidden inside those Vietnamese/Khmer homes.
This shows how stupid our current leaders are to attack this.
The 1970 coup brought war and misery and destruction to Cambodia and the Cambodian people. The idea that Cambodia will become another Champa was just a myth because even after Sihanouk was toppled, Vietcong troops were still operating inside Cambodian territories. Lon Nol, Sosthene Fernandez and other Khmer Republican army officers are still doing businesses with the Vietcong and even allowed military supplies from China through Kampong Som Part to Rattanakiri long after Sihanouk was kicked out of power. Nobody know who , Lon Nol or Khmer Rouge, who kicked the Vietcong out of Cambodia. It was certainly not Lon Nol because their army was so corrupt and pathetic. The Khmer Rouge? I doubt it. May be the Vietcong withdrew by themselves or may be they still occupied those territories until today? But one thing for sure is that, without the 1970 coup, Cambodia would be a peaceful and prosperous country like Thailand.
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