Japanese expert hailed Vietnamese army’s mission in Cambodia
The overthrow of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia by the Vietnamese military was an act of saving the humanity, and a great contribution to the international community, said a Japanese expert.
The Cambodian revolutionary armed forces and the Vietnamese volunteer soldiers joined a drill to improve combat ability (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The overthrow ofthe Pol Pot regime in Cambodia by the Vietnamese military was an act of saving thehumanity, and a great contribution to the international community, said aJapanese expert.
In a recent interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) correspondents,Prof. Go Ito from Japan’s Meiji University highlighted the significance ofefforts made by the Vietnamese army to help Cambodia escape from the Pol Pot genocidal regime 40 years ago,saying that this contributed to bringing peace to the Cambodian people.
The Vietnamese troops well completed its mission in Cambodia, he said.
According to the expert, in the late 1970s, the international community hardlyknew about the Pol Pot genocide and its barbarous acts of violating human rightsin Cambodia.
While judging the ruling of theExtraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), Ito said that the international community hadagreed to make the strongest judgment against these extremely serious humanright violations.
In other words, acts of violating human rights have been strictly prohibited,but the genocide in Cambodia at that time was even more horrible thanviolations of human rights, he stressed.
This was a strong judgment, which sent to the international community a clearmessage that the genocide was an unforgivable action.-VNA
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The Cambodian revolutionary armed forces and the Vietnamese volunteer soldiers joined a drill to improve combat ability (Source: VNA)
