Phnom Penh: Cambodia Celebrates National Day of Remembrance to commemorate the bitter history that every Cambodian will never forget the pain, torture, massacre and destruction of the nation and to commemorate the victims of the Pol Pot.

The President of the National Assembly, Heng Samrin, emphasized that this Friday, May 20 is a bitter day for all Cambodians who have gone through the genocidal regime of Pol Pot and cannot forget images of torture, slaughter, and national destruction at that time.

He paid tribute to the more than 3 million victims of the genocidal regime and warned them not to let it happen again.

The Khmer Rouge regime of the Democratic Kampuchea state-designated 20 May 1973 as the date of its cooperation and continued the war until it came to power in Phnom Penh in 1975. After the ruling, the Khmer Rouge used the policy of killing and forcing the people to work hard to completely change the standard of living of the people.

Remembrance Day, 20 May, is called the Day of Anger. This day was designated by the National Assembly of the People's Republic of Cambodia in 1983 as a day of rage against the Khmer Rouge regime, which persecuted and massacred millions of people in Cambodia.