Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.
It's up to history to judge.
Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.
In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.