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

The first time I heard of Tuol Sleng, it was on the Voice of America. I listened twice.

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

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.

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.