Occupation: Political Leader Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: April 15, 1998
In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die..
Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other han….
When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that..
The sick are victims of their own imagination..
Hunger is the most effective disease..
The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice..
I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975..
There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people - by us and also by the enemy - but the ot….
I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people..
Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake..
I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country..
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear..
We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious, th….
He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse..
No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out..
We will burn the old grass and the new will grow..
To kill the grass you must also remove the root.
If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication..
Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it ba….
Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies..
If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you..