Women light incense during a remembrance ceremony held for victims of the Khmer Rouge during an event at the Choeung Ek killing fields on the outskirts of Phnom Penh yesterday. Pha LinaMeas Sokchea
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Phnom Penh Post
An opposition politician fingered Vietnam and China as veritable puppet masters of the Khmer Rouge yesterday, the 37th anniversary of the day the murderous regime seized power and began forcibly evacuating Phnom Penh.
Speaking at a memorial ceremony held at the Choeung Ek killing fields, acting Sam Rainsy Party president Kong Korm claimed that Vietnam and China sought dominance over Cambodia through opposing factions in the Khmer Rouge.
“Khmer Rouge is just a small ember. China and Vietnam are a big fire burning brightly. One Khmer Rouge [faction] is in China’s control and another Khmer Rouge is in Vietnam’s control,” Kong Korm alleged.
Eponymous party president Sam Rainsy spoke via video conference from Canada, asking the Khmer Rouge tribunal to summon and convict political leaders including, Senate President Chea Sim and Prime Minister Hun Sen, for their alleged involvement in the genocide.
Hun Sen, Chea Sim and National Assembly Chairman Heng Samrin were among former Khmer Rouge cadre who abandoned the regime before its fall, seeking refuge in Vietnam, where they helped found the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, which swept to power with the 1979 Vietnamese invasion.
Documentation Center of Cambodia researcher Ly Sokkheang said Vietnam had good relations with the Khmer Rouge at the start of the regime, but these had soured as the regime launched military attacks on provinces along the Vietnamese border.
Cheam Yeap, senior lawmaker for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, dismissed the allegations.
“This is a complete twist, [an] exaggeration. I am a Khmer child, a Buddhist, we have seen that [Vietnam] came to chase out Pol Pot’s group,” he said.
Present political leaders should not be summoned by the tribunal, because its objective was to convict top Khmer Rouge leaders, and they were only rank and file, he added.
A Chinese Embassy spokesman declined to comment on the allegations, saying the Khmer Rouge trial was an internal affair of Cambodia.
To contact the reporter on this story: Meas Sokchea at meas.sokchea@phnompenhpost.com
With assistance from Cassandra Yeap
5 comments:
Yuon had plans to swallow Cambodia, China did not.
Yuon are now OCCUPYING Cambodia by using
Hun Sen and other CPP cronies.
Let's liberate OUR country !
Support and joint SRP !
Yeah, but the weapon that was used to kill millions of people by the Khmer Rogue are from China
I am tire of Khmer sided with the yuon Get it straight stupid. Did china steal land from us? No! The scum yuon did. Any Khmer that appreciate the yuon is saying..."I give you rice, now I f%&$%ck you. Then the Khmer said thank you! As for the Khmer rouge, they just like some of you Khmer who are stupid enough to fight and kill ourselves. Understand this you fool Khmer, Khmer united.
Stop being an ignorance fool. Just because I've said China weapon killing millions of Khmer innocent doesn't mean I am siding with youn. China steal land or not their weapon still kill millions of Khmer during Pol Pot time in power. And it's the truth, you Khmer can't denied
Yuon too got their weapons from China and the
USSR.
Yes, KR killed Khmers but at the manipulations
of Angka Leur founded and operated bu Yuon.
Yuon are good at BAD things.
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