The last surviving leader of the Red Khmer and the former head of Cambodia Khiheu Sphyphan stated that he had no involvement in genocide in the country. His words sounded on a speech before the international tribunal. It is reported by CNN.
“I categorically refutate the accusation and conviction that I had the intention to commit these crimes,” the former leader of Khmer said. On the process, he spoke with the appeal of the court sentence of a life sentence, which was submitted in 2018. He stated that he never wanted to commit crimes against Cambodian people.
“Whatever you decide, I will die in prison, I will die, always remembering the suffering of my Cambodian people,” Samphan concluded.
In 1976, he was the actual head of Cambodia, from 1976 to 1979 he served as chairman of the government. After overthrowing the troops of the Vietnam of the Red Khmer regime in 1979, he headed the government in exile, under the leadership of the leader Paul Pot. Their resistance to the providenamsocum regime occupied small areas on the border of Cambodia and Thailand.
In 1997, after overthrowing, Paul Pot and his detention, headed the red Khmer regime in exile. In 1998, after the death of Paul Pot, surrendered to Cambodian authorities along with another leader of Khmer Non Chea. In 2008, the trial began over Samphana, as above the main ideologist of the Genocide of Cambodia. In 2018, the Joint Court Cambodia and the UN sentenced him to life imprisonment.