Occupation: Political Leader Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: April 15, 1998
The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice..
I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader..
I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my missio….
I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country..
Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it ba….
The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia..
Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear..
I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside ou….
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….
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….
I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people..
I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975..
For the other people, the babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes. I feel sorry for that. That was….
The sick are victims of their own imagination..
He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse..
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..
Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies..
If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication..
Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake..
To kill the grass you must also remove the root.
We will burn the old grass and the new will grow..