January 7, 1979 and the Forgery of History

CFC/CBC Newsletter January 7, 2007

January 7, 1979 and the Forgery of History

In order to measure the extent and the depth of the Vietnamese domination in Cambodia, even at the present time, one only needs to listen to the CPP leaders and their “subjects,” to whom the invasion and the occupation of Cambodia by Le Duc Tho’s armies on January 7, 1979, was considered as a “liberation” of the Cambodian people from the genocide perpetrated by the Democratic Kampuchea Khmer Rouge. Thus to them, the Vietnamese were the saviors of Humanity.

Sign of first contradiction: Messrs. Chea Sim, Heng Samrin, Hun Sen and other minor Khmer Rouge chiefs, reclaimed by Le Duc Tho, were in fact the executioners of the genocidal regime up to the middle of 1978, before they fled to Vietnam following the internal purge ordered by Pol Pot for other reasons. Furthermore, at the arrival of the Vietnamese “liberators,” the former Khmer Rouge torturers who were arrested or denounced by the population, were sent for a quick “re-education” and returned to the service of the “liberators” to administer anew this same Cambodian population.