Having left his arm and intestines behind on the southwestern battlefield, the old soldier sat silently in Ba Dinh Square, shedding tears of happiness as he watched the young soldiers march forward in peace.
98-year-old Bun Sen and her 101-year-old sister reunited for the first time after 47 years of separation, both believing their sister was no longer alive.
The Khmer Rouge troops hid among the civilian population, waged guerrilla warfare, and planted landmines and explosives everywhere, inflicting heavy losses on the Vietnamese volunteer forces.
On September 26th, marking 30 years since the Vietnamese volunteer army successfully completed its international mission in Cambodia, the last soldier of the Buddhist army left the land of temples.
The son of Prime Minister Hun Sen stated that at the time when Cambodia was in dire straits under the Khmer Rouge, and the whole world turned a blind eye, only Vietnam extended a helping hand.
Without surgery, the mother would die, but surgery could still be fatal. The operation was performed in the light of a hand-cranked generator, and then the power went out while they were making the incision...
Norng Chan Phal was one of four children rescued from a genocidal prison by Vietnamese volunteer soldiers when they joined Cambodian troops in liberating Phnom Penh.
Many former Vietnamese volunteer soldiers in Cambodia are outraged, saying that Lee Hsien Loong should apologize for his reckless statements and distortion of history.
Mr. Prime Minister of Singapore, you owe an apology to the people of Vietnam, the people of Cambodia, and the volunteer soldiers who saved Cambodia from genocide.
The Australian professor stated that, albeit belatedly, after decades the world has finally gained a proper understanding of the sacrifices made by the Vietnamese Volunteer Army soldiers during the fierce battles in Cambodia.
Colonel Nguyen Dinh affirmed that we are ready to destroy and crush any enemy that threatens the destiny of the Fatherland or the border security of Vietnam, not just Pol Pot.
On the morning of January 7th, in Phnom Penh, the capital of the Kingdom of Cambodia, a ceremony was held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the country's liberation, the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime, and the end of the darkest period in its history.
Today, January 7, 2019, marks the 40th anniversary of the fall of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, and also the 40th anniversary of the victorious war to defend the southwestern border.
Bullet marks are like a soldier's memory, forever etched in their minds. No one should forget history, a painful history, but one that also helps us appreciate the value of peace.
The march covered over 5.000 km over four years; never before had Vietnamese soldiers marched so far outside their homeland.
For the past 40 years, no Cambodian has forgotten the pain of the genocide that claimed the lives of more than 2,2 million people, a period during which Vietnamese soldiers had to overcome the haunting memories of the battlefield.
Forty years have passed, and veterans who fought in Cambodia are returning to their old battlefields, embarking on a journey known as "Touching the Memories."
Forty years have passed since the war to defend the southwestern border and liberate our neighbor from the Pol Pot genocide; this was a necessary war that Vietnam never wanted.
Not only did the Khmer Rouge regime cause the deaths of millions of Cambodians, but it also repeatedly attacked the Vietnamese border region, resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians in An Giang and Tay Ninh provinces.
The Vietnamese volunteer soldiers arrived in Cambodia at a very young age and fought selflessly against the genocidal Pol Pot regime.
The Prime Minister emphasized that the historic victory on January 7, 1979, was a shared triumph of the people of both countries as well as of progressive humanity worldwide.
The Prime Minister emphasized the historical relationship of solidarity and close cooperation between the two countries and peoples of Vietnam and Cambodia, both in times of hardship and adversity, as well as in times of peace, prosperity, and happiness.
He gathered the remains of his wife and two aunts, placing them at the top of the cave, and his five children at the bottom. Then he filled the cave with stones, creating a burial mound.
They forced her to witness the entire scene as they brutally murdered her husband and six children one by one.
By the eleventh day, no longer strong enough to crawl to the ditch to drink water, little Suong lay beside her father's body and fell asleep.
In a single day, the Pol Pot regime, devoid of humanity, murdered 800 innocent compatriots using extremely barbaric methods near the iron bridge.
Even a thousand years from now, humanity will never be able to imagine that such a horrific crime could exist.
On November 16th, in Phnom Penh, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) sentenced two former Khmer Rouge leaders, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, to life imprisonment.
Khmer Rouge - These brutal executioners stabbed and slashed teachers' bodies repeatedly with knives, then beheaded them. Horrifying memories of the Khmer Rouge.
Pol Pot's general - A Pol Pot soldier held a spear, thrust it straight down, lifted it high into the air, and then threw both the spear and the unfortunate child into the raging fire.
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