Heng Samrin, Cambodian People's Party Honorary Chairman, speaks at 34th anniversary of the January 7 victory over Pol Pot regime
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) - Cambodian People’s Party Honorary
Chairman Heng Samrin said Monday that the liberation of the capital in
1979 gave birth to human rights and democracy in Cambodia.
Speaking at the 34th anniversary of the January 7 victory over Pol Pot, he said the CPP "continues to boost activities to protect and promote democracy and respect human rights in the country."
"Democracy and human rights in Cambodia did not appear and progress through speeches or reports ... They appeared with the survival of Cambodian citizens after the genocidal Pol Pot regime collapsed," he said.
"The January 7 victory brought Cambodian people the right to survive and other significant rights including the right of expression."
Heng Samrin, who is also now president of the National Assembly, added that "all politicians have to see the progress and encouragement of these results and not insult Cambodian sovereignty."
Speaking at the 34th anniversary of the January 7 victory over Pol Pot, he said the CPP "continues to boost activities to protect and promote democracy and respect human rights in the country."
"Democracy and human rights in Cambodia did not appear and progress through speeches or reports ... They appeared with the survival of Cambodian citizens after the genocidal Pol Pot regime collapsed," he said.
"The January 7 victory brought Cambodian people the right to survive and other significant rights including the right of expression."
Heng Samrin, who is also now president of the National Assembly, added that "all politicians have to see the progress and encouragement of these results and not insult Cambodian sovereignty."
An estimated two million people died during the Khmer Rouge regime which was overthrown by Cambodian defectors supported by Vietnamese troops.
Heng Samrin himself served as head of the People’s Revolutionary Council of Kampuchea, the provisional government set up a day after the January 7 victory.
Following elections in 1981, he became head of state as president of a newly-formed State Council.
3 comments:
Liberation led to his birth place taken by his master Hanoi,yet he is still thankful to his master. Has Heng Samrin got any brain?
Without the collapsed of the communist block USSR,today Cambodia could have been still occupied by Hanoi's troops.
True Khmer
Agree, Viet liberation/invasion has given birth to the many illegal treaties that give Viet the right to encroach or annex large Khmer territory, including Heng Samrin's birthplace.
pouk a sava os nis kal ban vear ngoub.
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