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Cambodia: WHY I HELP YEAK CONG? [KH&EN]
I have been criticised for giving various kinds of help to the North Vietnam and Vietcong in their fight against American imperialism. Lon Nol, Sirik Matak, Son Ngoc Thanh, and their followers sentenced me to death for it, claiming that the colonisation by the Americans was less serious than the Vietnamese threat.
As Cambodia's head of state, my objective in dealing with Vietnam was to keep my country safe. We have seen what kind of foul play Ho Chi Minh, Le Daun, Pham Van Dong, Vo Nguyen Giap, and the like indulged in between 1947 and 1954.
He set up a "shadow" cabinet of loyalist and moved to shore up what he considered his best advantage-his friendship with the Vietnamese communists. The Prince yielded to Hanoi's pressure and gave the Vietnamese communists rights of passage to Sihanoukville, the deep-sea port he had built on the gulf of Siamese to prevent the Americans from blocking his country through South Vietnam, which controlled the Mekong River and Phnom Penh's river port. The Vietnamese communists were allowed to ship arms to Sihanoukville and truck them overland to eastern Cambodia. By 1967 the North Vietnam already were preparing for the TET offensive the following year: if the promised "uprising" succeeded, Sihanouk's worries about an American intervention would be over. The communists would win and the war would end.
Later, he clearly believed that permitting Vietnamese troops to seek sanctuary in his country would appease their leaders and that, once they had won the war, Cambodia's 'hospitality' would be remembered.
In Phnom Penh Chinese officials were still trying to persuade Lon Nol that should accommodate the Vietcong in the border areas.
If Cambodia had remained a kingdom-since all the solemn pledged the Vietnamese made were to the Kingdom of Cambodia-or if at the very least Norodom Sihanouk had remained Kampuchea's head of state, would Hanoi really have kept all its promises?
Sdec Sihanouk clearly tells us victims in his fearful answers about Yuon land-hungry and hegemonic intentions towards Cambodia that he was blindly betrayed by Yuon Crocodile leaders, Yuon Emperors always made many terrible-secret phoney promises to Cambodian kings in the past, but Samdech Euv Sihanouk didn't, perhaps, learn a lesson from his ancestors who terribly made mistake passing down to him was King Chey Chettha II who was the worst mad king in Cambodian history. And 21 provinces of Cambodia in present South Vietnam have fallen into Yuon Crocodile leaders' iron grasps completely in 1975. This is crocodile's loyal-motivated promise to its master not to eat its master. This tragic past repeatedly falls up onto him with many Yuon secret-dirty phoney promises to him as a Khmer old saying: An evil heart but an angel's mouth. (=A wolf in a sheep's clothing.):
And, since walls have ears, the FUNK ministers' qualms were repeated to General Giap. Shortly thereafter, his face flushed with anger, he expressed his indignation to me in the following terms: "We North Vietnamese are genuine Communists, men of our word. We promised you solemnly and in writing that we would always respect your sovereignty, your national independence, you territory as is now it stands, including the coastal islands. We will never break our promises. The greatest proof of our loyalty to Kampuchea and its chief of state [myself, at that time] is the sacrifice of Vietnam's finest, hundreds of whom have already given their lives for your country. It is a serious insult for the FUNK ministers to lump us together, most unfairly, with the American imperialist aggressors of our three Indochinese countries. The anti-Vietnamese remarks, made here in Hanoi, hurt us deeply, since every day our soldiers, far from their dear homeland and their loved families, fight and die on the sacred soil of our Khmer brothers and sisters, side by side with them against our common enemies, to save and liberate your country, Kampuchea."
Cambodia: SIHANOUK CONFESSION [KH]
Shortly after the March 18, 1970, coup d'etat in Phnom Penh, North Vietnam's Minister Pham Van Dong called on me in Peking, and in the presence of China's Prime Minister Zhou Enlai, swore to me in the name of his country that the Democratic Republic of Vietnam would always respect the abovementioned delineation of territorial borders, as well as the "Kingdom of Cambodia's" coastal islands.
In the euphoria surrounding the close of the Summit Conference of Indochinese Peoples (April, 1970), Pham Van Dong promised Norodom Sihanouk, again in Zhou Enlai's presence, that after our "joint victory over American imperialism," he and I would together go and lay a monumental "friendship marker" somewhere along the Vietnam-Cambodia border. It would symbolize the two countries' mutual respect of each other's territorial integrity and national independence. The Khmer Rouge have never forgiven Communist Vietnam for violating these promises made to Cambodia...via Norodom Sihanouk!
In April 1970, during the Summit Conference of Indochinese Peoples that I had helped organize, Premier Pham Van Dong of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam said to me: "Your Highness, we earnestly wish to see you resume your functions as Cambodia's head of state as soon as possible. We Vietnamese are your faithful allies; we will fight to the finish for your just cause. We Vietnamese will help you with all our resources and in all good faith."
But no matter what they say about me, until the day I die I will keep on believing that the Vietnamese will have no regard for our national independence and territorial integrity until they have reason to be grateful to us.
Therefore, all Cambodian children-this generation and next generation should think thoroughly when dealing with Yuon crocodile leaders. King Chey Chettha II and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, both of whom terribly made the worst mistakes in the Cambodian history.
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