Frases de Pol Pot

“Yo no me uní al movimiento de resistencia para matar a la gente, para matar a la nación. Mírame ahora. ¿Soy una persona salvaje? Mi conciencia está tranquila.”

“Cuando yo muera, mi único deseo es que Camboya siga siendo Camboya y pertenezca a Occidente. Es más por el comunismo, y quiero hacer hincapié en eso.”

“En realidad me uní al movimiento porque me encanta matar gente, pero no se lo contéis a nadie.”

“Lucho por una Camboya libre, independiente de occidente, y a Occidente no le gusta eso.”

“La tierra es de quien la cultiva.”

“Quiero que sepan que todo lo que hice, lo hice por mi país.”

“Soy bastante modesto, no quiero decirle a la gente que soy un líder.”

“I was responsible for everything so I accept responsibility and blame but show me, comrade, one document proving that I was personally responsible for the deaths.”

“First, I would like to tell you that I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people. Even now, and you can look at me, am I savage person? My conscience is clear.”

“Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.”

“We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious. They fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.”

“Tuol Sleng was a Vietnamese exhibition; a journalist wrote that. People talk about Tuol Sleng, Tuol Sleng, Toul Sleng, but when we look at the pictures, the pictures are the same. When I first heard about Tuol Sleng, it was on VOA [Voice of America]. I listened twice.”

“Everything I did, I did for my country.”

“Our policy was to provide an affluent life for the people. There were mistakes made in carrying it out. Several thousand people may have died.”

“There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people — by us and also by the enemy — but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.”

“We did not yet have laws or order. We were like children just learning to walk.”