The Cambodian Prime Minister called on all Cambodians to work together to prevent the brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge from happening again on their Fatherland.

In a nationwide message address on the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the National Day of Remembrance, the Cambodian Prime Minister, Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet has called on all citizens to study Cambodia’s past and the tragic pain that the Cambodian people had suffered.

The Cambodian Prime Minister said that the overwhelming majority of Cambodian citizenexperience and understand the bitter tragedies that had occurred in Cambodia’s history, when all Cambodian citizens had gone through blood and tears, killings, and all kinds of persecution. The Khmer Rouge destroyed almost all of the national economy, national culture, and forced their own people to work like animals, without enough food, and without proper medical care, stressed the Cambodian Premier.

The Cambodian Prime Minister continued to say that even though these tragic events have now passed and the Cambodian people have been living in peace, political stability, and full of development in all fields, all must not let this bitter past go by or forget it. We must always remember and jointly prevent such barbaric crimes, including war, from happening again on the beloved Cambodian land.

On behalf of the Royal Government and all Cambodian citizens, the Premier expressed his deepest gratitude to Samdech Techo Hun Sen, former Prime Minister and now President of the Senate of the Kingdom of Cambodia, who is not only the father of peace, the founder of the Win-Win policy for initiating the establishment of a national court with the participation of the United Nations, called the “Extraordinary Chamber of the Court of Cambodia to try former senior leaders and the most responsible persons of the Democratic Kampuchea regime between April 17, 1975 and January 6, 1979, in order to bring truth and justice to all victims of the regime.

By Pheara