Excerpts from the speech of Samdech Techo Hun Sen at the handing over of diplomas to students, teaching staffs, and educators at the National Institute of Education [Unofficial Translation]

(1) Collect and retrain teachers for the school year of 1979/80 […] Compared to before, we have come a long way. The starting point was that we relaunched the school year 1979-1980. At that time, we gathered the remaining teachers from the killing (by the Khmer Rouge Democratic Kampuchea regime) and selected those who were…