By Douglas Gillison and Yun Samean
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
Retired King Norodom Sihanouk described Funcinpec as a "miniscule" party staffed with former Lon Nol supporters in a message posted on his Web site on Tuesday.
"The sad realty is that FUNCINPEC is a (miniscule) party of former Khmer Republican-Lon-nolians. Bravo??" Norodom Sihanouk wrote of the party he founded in 1981, but from which he has since distanced himself.
The retired King was responding to comments made late last month by Funcinpec lawmaker Khieu San, who, after being admonished in the National Assembly for calling Taiwan a country, said he had been sent to Taiwan in 1973 by the Lon Nol regime for a year of military training.
Lon Nol overthrew then-Prince Sihanouk in a coup in 1970.
"Thus he has refused to call TAIWAN the 'island province belonging to the PR of China' but instead calls it the 'country,' that is, the 'country called Taiwan,'!" Norodom Sihanouk, who has close ties to China wrote of Khieu San's time in Taiwan.
Contacted by telephone, Khieu San said he regretted his choice of words.
"I apologize," he said. "It’s not a country, it’s an island. I agree"
He added that despite his previous involvement in the Lon Nol regime, he is devoted to Norodom Sihanouk
"Funcinpec is founded by His Majesty the King, Norodom Sihanouk I love him most of all," Khieu San said.
Funcinpec lawmaker Monh Saphan said he has noticed that Funcinpec officials who used to serve under Lon Nol have gone on to comply with the royalist party's policies.
"They joined the royalist party because they like the royalist party," he said.
Funcinpec Minister of Rural Development Lu Laysreng, who was elected to the National Assembly under Lon Nol, said people had no choice but to serve the regime, as Lon Nol was the man in charge.
"At that time it was the Lon Nol regime, so people under Lon Nol were Lon-Nolians," he said.
"The sad realty is that FUNCINPEC is a (miniscule) party of former Khmer Republican-Lon-nolians. Bravo??" Norodom Sihanouk wrote of the party he founded in 1981, but from which he has since distanced himself.
The retired King was responding to comments made late last month by Funcinpec lawmaker Khieu San, who, after being admonished in the National Assembly for calling Taiwan a country, said he had been sent to Taiwan in 1973 by the Lon Nol regime for a year of military training.
Lon Nol overthrew then-Prince Sihanouk in a coup in 1970.
"Thus he has refused to call TAIWAN the 'island province belonging to the PR of China' but instead calls it the 'country,' that is, the 'country called Taiwan,'!" Norodom Sihanouk, who has close ties to China wrote of Khieu San's time in Taiwan.
Contacted by telephone, Khieu San said he regretted his choice of words.
"I apologize," he said. "It’s not a country, it’s an island. I agree"
He added that despite his previous involvement in the Lon Nol regime, he is devoted to Norodom Sihanouk
"Funcinpec is founded by His Majesty the King, Norodom Sihanouk I love him most of all," Khieu San said.
Funcinpec lawmaker Monh Saphan said he has noticed that Funcinpec officials who used to serve under Lon Nol have gone on to comply with the royalist party's policies.
"They joined the royalist party because they like the royalist party," he said.
Funcinpec Minister of Rural Development Lu Laysreng, who was elected to the National Assembly under Lon Nol, said people had no choice but to serve the regime, as Lon Nol was the man in charge.
"At that time it was the Lon Nol regime, so people under Lon Nol were Lon-Nolians," he said.
8 comments:
Come on prince Sihanouk, did you said you are the father of all Cambodian? What is Lon Nolnian?
Most of regular educated and honest Cambodians had to live with Lon Nol and we fought again the Viet Cong, you may not know.
We put the arm down because we belived your were comming back that why we lost our lives, families, and property.
We cambodians fought for cambodia and you to get you back your throne, dont remember? That why Hun Sen talk to you!
Now you have every thing and you think only Hun Sen is your good son.
Man, this dude is fucking crazy... Get a live, old man.
Sihanouk defends main land China because China is his communist master. He himself is Cambodia communist leader like Ho Chi Minh and Moa Seng Tong. He said Taiwan is not a country. What's about we lost 2 islands and some part of lands to Vietnam? Did he ever care? Now Thailand asks about border issue, and next Loa will ask some land from us. Next they will ask his palace. Then he will give all away because he has two more palaces out of the country, China and North Korea. Whose said he is not a communist? Wake up all of you who still supports him.
Give Cambodia people a break.
To my openion, Sihanouk is evil. In the full of his life, he never care about his country beside caring about Vietnamese and the group of Communist Countries in order to keep his power as a King. Today, he is 84 year olds. He still expect that he can stay longer. He should care himself better then anything else in his old age but he still serve to his evil mind as a slave. He is a slave of his own mind for now. Please wake up Sihanouk!!! do something before you die. You can't even take your three palaces to go with you. Please come back and die in your country. People expect to see the bad bad King die.
Sihanouk, the former Cambodian King is Ho Chi Minh's ass kisser. He kiss Ho for sexual with Nguyen Thi Binh. He like to have sex with North-Vietnamese Educational Minister in the late 1960.
All cambodian leaders since Sihanouk regim are alike. They've cared most about foreigners leaving poor and desparate Khmer people in the hell. Wake up leaders! At least, you were born in Cambodia. I don't think Lon Nol is bad as he is accused(I was born after KR regim but I've read and listened alot). I am sorry that Lon Nol is not alive to defend himself against all accusations.
I don't want to accuse anyone but please all wake up and build the country, Cambodia!
Thanks
hey..all of you seems went the same path, that's is call khmer, the real khmer..not khmer sihanouk or khmer hearsay, or khmer educators who think they all that, or khmer that know how to speak or read english or other languages, but bragged by just read from the books. i'm not anti-king, but i'm anti-the comminist king, any leaders that love their people and and country, and make sure that its people live in prosper is what i like. Remember poiltic is for fame and money is for corrupted the politic, so if you think that doing politic for the money, that mean you are kidding yourself, or other term call "betray or treason"
b/c they're not thinking about the future of the people and the country...eeyore!
lon nol wasmy hero..he did something just for khmers, and i'm very sad b/c the people in lon nol governments was the sihanouk people and they don't list to him, that's why khmer fell,...eeyore1
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