PHNOM PENH: Prime Minister Hun Sen will give a lecture on his Win-Win policy and the national liberation process, which brought peace to Cambodia in the late 1990’s. He will speak on these topics at the Ministry of National Defence on June 20 to honor “the journey to overthrow the genocidal Pol Pot regime.”

The Premier announced the upcoming event to a crowd of 18,000 factory workers and employees in the Pou Senchey district today. “June 20 is the 46th anniversary of the journey to national liberation. I have to go to the Ministry of National Defence to give a lecture. We won’t go to the border to hold the celebration as usual. […] I’ll talk about the Win-Win policy and my departure and my character in the process of national liberation,” he said.

The Prime Minister once again appealed to his compatriots to help maintain the hard-earned peace, stressing, “Don’t wait until we lose peace to cry for it.”

On June 20, 1977, at the age of 25, Hun Sen, along with four comrades, fled to Vietnam through Tonloung commune’s Memut district in Kampong Cham province (currently Thbong Khmum province), to form a movement to liberate Cambodia and its people. In 1978, Hun Sen became a founding member of the United Front for the National Salvation of Kampuchea (UFNSK).

In collaboration with other patriotic movements and with the support of Vietnamese volunteer forces, on Jan. 7, 1979, the UFNSK rescued Cambodia and its people from the genocidal regime of Democratic Kampuchea.