Phnom Penh (FN), May 22 – Cambodian Senate President, Samdech Techo Hun Sen said that the Cambodian citizens experienced great pain when the international community handed over the UN seat to the Khmer Rouge and imposed diplomatic and economic sanctions on those who survived the Khmer Rouge regime for 12 years.

Samdech Techo spoke on Wednesday (May 22) at the closing of the conference on the “Future of Cambodia Without Genocide” at the Extraordinary Cambodian People Suffered When International Community Granted Khmer Rouge UN Seat and Imposed 12-year Sanctions on Survivors Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).

"They [international community] condemned us for overthrowing the Khmer Rouge regime and even accused us of falsifying evidence related to the genocide," Samdech Techo underscored.

"Cambodian citizens were in great pain when the international community gave the Khmer Rouge a seat at the United Nations and imposed diplomatic and economic sanctions on the surviving citizens from the Khmer Rouge regime for 12 years. The international community (some countries) even helped form the tripartite coalition government of Democratic Kampuchea in 1982 by supplying weapons and ammunition to the Khmer Rouge regime,” Samdech Techo continued.

The Senate president added, " Even within the Paris Peace Agreement, we were prohibited from denouncing the Khmer Rouge regime as genocidal. The gravest injustice was witnessed as certain countries, despite recognizing the Khmer Rouge, persisted in extending political and military support to them. Furthermore, they never acknowledged their culpability to the Cambodian citizens; instead, they pressured the government to prosecute the Khmer Rouge only after the elections and after the Khmer Rouge dissolved their political and military entities.”
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