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

The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.

I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.

I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.

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

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

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