I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975.

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious, they fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.

Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.