១៨ មេសា ២០១៥ / 18 April 2015
ដកស្រង់ពី / Excerpt from: The Cambodia Daily, 18 April 2015
ON ANNIVERSARY OF KHMER ROUGE VICTORY, SAM RAINSY TOUTS PEACE / ថ្ងៃខួប ជ័យជម្នះខ្មែរក្រហម សម រង្សី ុអំពាវនាវ ស្នើសុំសន្តិភាព
At a ceremony marking 40 years since the Khmer Rouge seized Phnom Penh and began their bloody rule of Cambodia, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said on Friday that he and Prime Minister Hun Sen had, for the time being, ended the country’s long history of conflict.
Speaking to some 300 CNRP supporters at the Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, commonly called the killing fields, Mr. Rainsy said that after centuries of violence it was time for Cambodians to achieve peace on their own terms.
“For 500 years in the past, we have seen Khmers suffering and killed by other Khmers or by foreigners,” Mr. Rainsy said.
“When Khmers fought for power, one group had conflict with another group and they killed each other with no end. When foreigners intervened, they allowed one group to win and they appointed them to hold power,” he said.
“There is only one lesson: To avoid having a tragedy like this in the near future, we have to change our mindset, our habit, our culture of trying to get rid of each other through violence and a culture of war.”
Speaking to reporters after his speech, Mr. Rainsy said that he and Mr. Hun Sen, through their recently established “culture of dialogue,” would prevent violence from once again entering the country’s political arena.
“Now, Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen and I, Sam Rainsy, we are respecting our promise to end tension and violence,” he said. “And we will avoid any violence in the future.”
Earlier this week, the opposition leader joined the prime minister at a Khmer New Year festival in Siem Reap City, a seeming show of solidarity following the establishment of a new National Election Committee and the release of 18 activists who had been imprisoned over the past year (…).
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