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Four years ago, on May 4, 1970, the people and the youthful students of America organized great demonstrations to protest and condemn the armed aggression perpetrated by the Nixon administration against the government and people of Cambodia...
...April 30, 1970, in order to protect the band of traitors headed by Lon Nol and Sirik Matak which the Nixon administration had installed in Phnom Penh by a criminal coup, President Richard Nixon ordered U.S. and Saigongovernment soldiers to invade Cambodia. More than 110,000 American and Saigon soldiers with the most up-to-date means of destruction at their disposal and with the help of the U.S. Air Force penetrated into northeastern Cambodia, bringing with them death, destruction and ruin...
...first contingent of South Vietnamese mercenaries arrived in Phnom Penh to defend the Lon Nol group, which was about to be destroyed by the Cambodian people, risen in mass in response to the historic call of March 23 of Norodom Sihanouk, the legal chief of state of Cambodia and president of its United National Front...
...With the bombing thing coming out [the secret bombing of Cambodia] and everything coming out, the whole thing was national security...
Frankly, I was somewhat surprised at him. I think even today the Americans still haven't given up the point of view Kennedy set forth to me. My belief is confirmed by the war which the United States has been waging in Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia...