Paris Peace Accords 23 Oct. 1991

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Mystery Man in Peking (Pol Pot, Hoang Van Hoan)


Seen and heard on Ms. Theary C. Seng's Facebook accounts: 
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng


Mystery Man in Peking

September 28, 1977...world premiere for a faceless Cambodian leader and a ceremony for anointing the Sino-Khmer alliance. [...] A hundred thousand Peking residents were brought to line the area outside the airport...to greet the exceptional Cambodian guests. [...]

Pol Pot warmly shook hands with Chinese premier and party chairman Hua Guofeng on the tarmac. Eight top party leaders, nearly a third of the Chinese party's powerful Politburo, including freshly rehabilitated Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping, gathered at the airport to underline the closeness of China's friendship with Democratic Kampuchea. [...]

Hoang Van Hoan...vice-chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly. ...two years later [autumn 1979] Hoan would shock the world by becoming the first top Vietnamese leader to defect to China and denounce Hanoi's policy toward Cambodia

[For the invasion? The brutality? The looting and plundering of Phnom Penh? For diverting food aid to Vietnam during famine in Cambodia? For invasion AND occupation? For massive flooding of Cambodia with Vietnam's undesirables? For soon to be implemented K-5 Plan, a smaller-scale genocide to the KR years? Interested to know more about this man...]



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