Cambodia: WHO FIRST SECRETLY CREATED ANGKAR LEUR? (5of6)[KH]

WE have to know to cover up our secrecy. We must to use the psychological weapons because if Our Party makes war against the Khmers, by using weapons and forces, we could not defeat them. Because Khmers are, in fact, gentle but if we fought with them in a battlefield. Khmers are tenacious and tolerable in a hard time and in the hot weather and rainy season. Therefore, Our Party must use tactful tricks how to incite, divide, flatter and deceive them according to their weakness, and then we could take wondrous victory in our hands...Etc. At that time, Ieng exclaimed, "It sounds too easy!" From 1970 to 1973, Pro-Sihanoukists were fighting against pro-Lon Nolists. They bursted with joyfulness and shouted in the name of Sihanouk to instigate the poor peasants and workers to hate corrupt Lon Nol regime, and to restore Sihanouk to power. In the United States, the President Nixon didn't know much about Vietnamese tricks/circuses. He authorized the American-South Vietnamese forces to launch a clean-up operation extending forty kilometers inside Cambodian territory and lasting from 30 April to June 30 1970. Therefore, as a Cambodian old saying; "The Giant [US] received a blessing from the Shiva (Vietnamese)". Both North and South Vietnamese are so extremely tricky, taking advantage of this official blessing on an incursion into Khmer territory to avenge and overavenge their compatriots who had been massacred by Lon Nol's men the month before; their savagery drove a large number of Cambodian peasants over to the Khmer communists who were in the jungles with Vietcong/NVAs leaders. And, Nguyen van Thieu's savage horde Cambodia came to invade, pillage, burn, ruin, destroy Cambodia, and to rob, torture, rape and murder Cambodians. That was the high price Nguyen Van Thieu's Government made Cambodia pay in exchange for the military protection it provided the faltering Khmer Republic. The prince Sihanouk and Khieu Samphan were betrayed by North Vietnam from 1970 to 1979. As Chou En-lai told Ambassador, Manac'h that the longer war in Cambodia continued, the more extreme and harsh would be final victory. The North Vietnamese were able to give satisfactory assurances on Laos; Hanoi had always dominated the Pathet Lao. In Cambodia, however, no such guarantees could be given, because of the growing tension between the North Vietnamese and the Khmer Rouge. During 1972, when almost all North Vietnamese combat divisions were withdrawn from Cambodia for the offensive in South Vietnam, reports of fairly constant fighting between the allies reached Phnom Penh and Washington. By the end of the year the Khmer Rouge were fielding an army of around 50, 000 men, organized in regiments, and were strong enough to hold their own against Lon Nol, with only logistical support from the North Vietnamese. They could now act independently of Hanoi. Did the Khmer Rouge really act independently of Hanoi after 1973? Rubbish! They did withdrew their troops from international level, to have hidden their faces in the jungles of Cambodian territory, waiting for a good time to come for action as happened from 1975 to 1979. To compare the articles from foreign authors/ journalists who claimed to be Cambodian expert, but didn't mention about the "Hidden faces and names of Angkar Leur/ Cap Tren: we have seen that the Khmer Rouge was a family affair. One might say as much about the Khmer Issarak Liberation Front (Free Cambodians), headed by 1950 on by Son Ngoc Minh, a relative of Son Ngoc Thanh's (one of the Khmer Serei leader's brothers, Son Thai Nguyen, was also elected to the South Vietnam Senate). The putative father of a dissident movement, Son Ngoc Minh became the head of the Khmer Vietminh. Following the Geneva agreements of 1954, they went over to Hanoi. The elderly Son Ngoc Minh, eliminated by the Khmer Rouge in 1972, did not fully taste the fruits of his plotting. His successors, even if they deny it, are Heng Samrin and his pro-Vietnamese cohorts, who moved into Phnom Penh when Hanoi invaded the city in January 1979. A Radio Hanoi program in December 1978, claimed the Khmer Rouge had subsequently poisoned the old Khmer communist movement, that is, uniting the Khmer Rouge and Khmer-Vietminh. This idea of a "clean, pure" revolution was the driving force behind the hell that was descending on Kompot and over six million other Cambodians. Overnight, the people were required to become peasants, workers, or soldiers. There was no need for other occupations. They had been abolished on the first day of the revolution. All commerce, private, money and enterprise were abolished; all markets, every shop, and every restaurant were closed; no one was to be paid for his labor. The revolution claimed it would take care of every need of the citizenry. The state claimed ownership of all property and control over every activity of the citizens. All individual rights were abolished.