Phnom Penh (FN), June 20 – Death by a Vietnamese bullet was preferable to a living death under the Khmer Rouge regime. Hun Sen and four of his trusted soldiers – Nhek Huon, Nuch Than, San Sanh, and Paor Ean started their long trek to Vietnam at 9 p.m on 20 June 1977, wrote the Mehta couples in a famous book “Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia”.

The premier’s crossing point on the Cambodian side was the tiny Koh Thmar village in Kompong Cham’s Memot district and just ahead lay the forbidding Vietnamese district of Loc Ninh in Song Be province.

20 June 2018 marks the 41st anniversary of the struggle to liberate Cambodian people from Pol Pot regime, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen wrote on Facebook on Tuesday attached with a photo of himself standing bravely hands on hips “ready for action”.

"Although Cambodian people and I currently enjoy peace, I will never forget tens of thousands of drops of tear when I stepped out of the motherland, leaving Cambodian people, especially my pregnant wife. I did not have a better option, as we could not ask for compassion from Pol Pot regime. That risky choices and tears bring happiness and non-stop progress nowadays,” the premier wrote.

Below is an over-sixty-minute documentary presenting the journey of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his four fighters to Vietnam in 1977 to seek assistance to fight for national freedom, detailing the struggle of Prime Minister Hun Sen and the National Liberation Army to overthrow Pol Pot regime in Jan. 7, 1979.

To commemorate the 41st anniversary of the struggle June 20, 1977- June 20, 2018, Prime Minister Hun Sen also gifted a song entitled "Life as an Input" for listening and understanding.
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