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The Cambodian Action Committee for Justice & Equity (CACJE) solemnly condemned the smear campaign of Hanoi and communist puppets who intended to induce Cambodian people in error about the truthful meaning of the events of October 23, 1991 and March 18, 1970.

CACJE categorically denounces Mr. Sam Raingsy, President of the Sam Raingsy Party (SRP) for having baselessly criticized the event of March 18, 1970. Mr. Sam Raingsy said, March 18, 1970 was the day where Khmer people started the civil war and the Khmer Rouge regime of killing field. Mr. Sam Raingsy intended not only to mislead the true meaning of that historic Day of March 18, 1970, but also shows his kowtow to Vietnamese puppets in power in Phnom Penh, under the authoritarian ruler Hun Sen.

CACJE solemnly reaffirms that April 17, 1975 was the day where the Khmer Vietminh and Vietnamese communists under Vietnamese communist leadership started their genocide against Cambodian people and the killing field of Khmer Rouge regime. Therefore, October 23, 1991 was the second Independence Day for Cambodia where the international community obliged the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to withdraw all their Armed Forces from Cambodia.

As for March 18, 1970 was the historic day where the Cambodian people kicked out the monarchy and feudality and replaced it by freedom as the coup of Ta Trasak Paem had put an end to the bloodline of Varam 680 years ago, in 1290.

CACJE remarked, the critic of Sam Raingsy about the event of March 18, 1970 that toppled Samdech Norodom Sihanouk from power was in the same vein of Mr. Hun Sen. Sam Raingsy used the same meaning and the same wording as Hun Sen. This proved that Sam Raingsy, Hun Sen and Norodom Sihanouk were from the same political group which hide the truth to Cambodian people and were soft and accomplices with Vietnamese puppets and royal feudality. Cambodian people and nationalists who had supported financially and by bulletin vote for Sam Raingsy should not trust him anymore.