lENG SARY’S REGIME:​ The Diary of the Foreign Affairs Ministry in the Khmer Rouge's Regime, 1976-1979.

D119464

lENG SARY’S REGIME:​ The Diary of the Foreign Affairs Ministry in the Khmer Rouge's Regime, 1976-1979.

English

Cambodia

1976-1979

DC-Cam, January 1997. Document No. D119464

Computer-typing (tx). 106 pages of the document.

lENG SARY’S REGIME: The Diary of the Khmer Rouge Foreign Ministry, 1976-79. Joint Monograph Translation Series No. 1

Joint Monograph Translation Series No. 1 translated from Khmer to English by Phat Kosal and Ben Kier

Ieng Sary's Diary 1976-1979

This anonymous document was discovered in early 1979 by a Cambodian returning to
Plmom Penli from the countryside, who found it and a number of other documents in a house
apparently recently vacated by leng Sary, Foreign Minister of Democratic Kampuchea. In 1986,
the finder kindly gave Ben Kiemaii permission to copy this small archive, which included
confidential minutes of 1975-76 meetings of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), of which leng Sary was a leading member. The minutes appear to have been leng Sary’s personal copies. (For a listing, see Ben Kieman, The Pol
Pot Regime, Yale University Press, 1996, p. 324 n.60.) Although the author of the document
translated here is unnamed, a reading suggests that it must have been a senior aide to leng Sary. It is
leng Sary’s revolutionary pseudonym, 'Van,’ which appears frequently in the diary, followed by
comments attributed to him. Very likely, the major part of the text is a summaiy record of speeches
and documents prepared or distributed by leng Sary.
For instance, the following speech, made at a congress of Party cells of the Foreign Ministry
on 18 January 1977, was probably made by leng Sary or in his presence: “1976 was the key year. Our enemies are now weakening and are going to die. The revolution has pulled out their roots, and the espionage networks have been smashed; in terms of classes, our enemies are all gone. However, they still have the American imperialists, the revisionists, the KGB, and Vietnam. Though they have been defeated, they still go on. Another thing is that the enemies are on our body, among the military, the
workers, in the co-operatives and even in our ranks. To make Socialist Revolution deeply and strongly, these enemies must be progressively wiped out.” (p. 126 of the text)

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