F'pec Hosts Contentious Birthday Celebration
By Yun Samean
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
The hosting of a large ceremony today at Funcinpec headquarters to mark retired King Norodom Sihanouk's 84th birthday will prove once and for all that the party is still truly royalist Funcinpec's spokesman Nouv Sovathero said.
"We are royalists. We don't betray the monarchy," Nouv Sovathero said Monday.
"Retired King Norodom Sihanouk was the party's founder," he said adding that the celebration will be attended by Funcinpec officials from across the country as well as scores of Buddhist monks.
But Ok Socheat public affairs adviser to Funcinpec's recently ousted president Prince Norodom Ranariddh, said the royalist celebration was nothing but an illusion created by Funcinpec's Secretary-General Nhiek Bun Chhay.
"They are not royalists. They celebrate the ceremony to confuse the people," Ok Socheat said.
Even retired King Sihanouk has referred to Prince Ranariddh's ousting by his own party as a "coup," Ok Socheat added.
Funcinpec officials announced Sunday that Prince Ranariddh had been stripped of his title as Funcinpec "historical president" and fired from his job as a lawmaker. The prince's removal followed his submission of a request to the Interior Ministry seeking permission to establish his new Norodom Ranariddh Party.
Ok Socheat said that many of Prince Ranariddh's supporters wanted to celebrate the retired king's birthday today, but were afraid of Nhiek Bun Chhay's "group."
Prince Sisowath Thomico, general delegate of the Sangkum Jatiniyum Front Party, said that newly appointed Funcinpec President Keo Puth Rasmey and Nhiek Bun Chhay were not true royalists.
"Celebrating retired King Norodom Sihanouk's birthday doesn't mean that they are royalists," Prince Thomico added.
Koul Panha, director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections, said that three competing royalist parties would only hurt their election chances.
"The three factions will split the royalists' votes," he said.
"We are royalists. We don't betray the monarchy," Nouv Sovathero said Monday.
"Retired King Norodom Sihanouk was the party's founder," he said adding that the celebration will be attended by Funcinpec officials from across the country as well as scores of Buddhist monks.
But Ok Socheat public affairs adviser to Funcinpec's recently ousted president Prince Norodom Ranariddh, said the royalist celebration was nothing but an illusion created by Funcinpec's Secretary-General Nhiek Bun Chhay.
"They are not royalists. They celebrate the ceremony to confuse the people," Ok Socheat said.
Even retired King Sihanouk has referred to Prince Ranariddh's ousting by his own party as a "coup," Ok Socheat added.
Funcinpec officials announced Sunday that Prince Ranariddh had been stripped of his title as Funcinpec "historical president" and fired from his job as a lawmaker. The prince's removal followed his submission of a request to the Interior Ministry seeking permission to establish his new Norodom Ranariddh Party.
Ok Socheat said that many of Prince Ranariddh's supporters wanted to celebrate the retired king's birthday today, but were afraid of Nhiek Bun Chhay's "group."
Prince Sisowath Thomico, general delegate of the Sangkum Jatiniyum Front Party, said that newly appointed Funcinpec President Keo Puth Rasmey and Nhiek Bun Chhay were not true royalists.
"Celebrating retired King Norodom Sihanouk's birthday doesn't mean that they are royalists," Prince Thomico added.
Koul Panha, director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections, said that three competing royalist parties would only hurt their election chances.
"The three factions will split the royalists' votes," he said.
15 comments:
... Thomico: CPP wants to destroy monarchy.
That leaves only SRP the true royalist.
SiS
Who care about this bloody indiot monarchy with all funny people without family value and humanity moral? These people are similar to animal breaded ape. what they know is monies and sex. National interest is the most important for Cambodia survival. If any foulish who belived with intellectual handicap Sihanouk, Cambodia will turn into year zero of Sihanouk led Pol Pot in the 1975 again.
What he said is :Sihanouk was monarchist, and Sirik Matak, Chandraingsey were not monarchist.
Now Rannarith and Sihamony are monarchist but Thomico, all other Sisowat and his two daughters are not monarchist.
Can anyone immagine this kind of thinking? I think his brain is in old age.
PLease learn to assess which Royal is Monarchist according to Sihanouk !!!What he has said all royalist are not monarchist. All CPP are monarchist + Sihamony and Rannarith. One day Hun Sen will remove Sihamony and will declare himself as The King because Sihanouk has affirmed already that CPP are monarchist!!!
To 1:31pm
You could be very well saying the truth. I hate to admit,but now that Put Rasmey is replacing Ranariddh which is the half brother of Princess Arun Rasmey,who or which one weight more to The old King?
My guess is Prince Ran. Put Rasmey can be replaced by His wife, but Prince Ran, he ( The old King ) can not. This is a slow motivation to weakening the Royal family and ultimately destroy the whole Monarchy.
Would you trust that Hun Sen would not do any harm to Them? Time will tell.
When that day comes, the new King's M16 men need to be called to do the job.
and if Arun Rasmey is strong enough and smart enough to see it trought that the monarchy must survive, she needs to reevaluate her relationship with her second husband ( Put Rasmey ) and make trouble. There will man that likes King Sihanouk and the monarchy. The man will be more than ready to help her. Hopefully, he will be from The SRP. May be then Khmers will see new light of true happiness.
King Sihanouk is a very intelligent, brilliant, and a great entertainer! Too loveable of a King that his subjects whome had followed him blindly got themselves killed by his in ability to shut up.
Prince Thomico should remain calm instead and try to create the atmosphere of trust and friendly relation with both The King's clan and The SRP, if not forming the old King's favorite group of M16 like they said, to protect The Monarchy and strenghten his bond with them.
He should do that before other princes seeing this marvelous opportunities and take it upon themselves.
If so,Thomico will be left out dead and dry like The rest of The Sisowath before.
Please remember that you are not his son and could be subject to anything and anything. You only choise to prove that you are true to them by staying honest, truthful and being an intelligent man enough to see what the word " danger " means to the rest of royalist?
To Prince Thomico:
Please remember that you are not his son and could be subject to anything and anything. Your only choise to prove that you are true to them is by staying honest, truthful and being an intelligent man enough to really see what the word " DANGER " means to the rest of the royalist or HM. King Sihamoni?
That if you care or see it like we would. Otherwise do what you want and good luck to you and us!
One special request to HRH Prince Thomico ( and perhaps HM. King Sihamoni ):
The future of Cambodian Queen should definitely come from The Sisowaths. This time, the young Princess or mature old Princess should be trained,told to keep HM The King in line and for life. We do expect that HRH and HM The King
understand the meaning of this special request and redefining Khmers Moral Standard.
Should the Sisowaths fail miserably to carry on this mission, we suggest that His Majesty looks among our own Khmer Commoners'daughter to marry and to produce an heir or preserve ourselves now and eternity.
Good luck Apsarah Dancers!
I just cannot see why Sihaanouk still crying about the throne. He gave up. He passed on to his son. He is crying because of Ranariddh?
The king, please you had other sons who love you too.
Hello 10:44PM, Hun Sen is very quick to learn the bad trick. He is now looking to turn the new page of Sdech Karn. He think that his last life was sdech Karn who is now born to remove former dynasty to set up his own dynasty. He learn this also from Wang Xi Cai of China. After Xun Yat Sen had removed Manchu monarchy from China and place Wang Xi Cai to be President, but this later has declared himself Empeurer instead until he was assassinated by Chea Kai Chek.
Oh my god .... you guys are so Khmer-American, well we khmer in Cambodia thinks the opposite way of what you guys are thinking. i know most of you are from SRP, which is now unpopular in Phnom Penh because SRP lies a LOT ! And well you guys needs to come back here , life here is geing much better and we believe in PM Hun Sen, he is not what all of you are thinking he is. First of all i would like to say that who caused to Cambodian Civil War ? Sihanouk or the USA ? i just wanted to say that the USA bring the warin Southern Asia which was in Vietnam and touched Cambodia. you guys must a a bit ashame always talk bad about people but never mention about what good things they've done. Lon LOn and siri matak were the US dog who listened to US and did a coup to Sihanouk .... They are the traitors ! after that USA reconized the Khmer Rouge as the government of Cambodia. so ?? why don t u hate the US .? They are always playing around the world to make other nation poorer and poorer ... And by the way ... s the condition n IRAQ is improving ? nope it's getting worst ... many people die everything ? WEll Iraq is going to be like Cambodia..... Ha ... I mean you guys shouldn t say too much and just go back to Cambodian a help our people , BE USEFULL !!! if you guys really love your country why would you stay in US ?
To 12:56p.m
Stop beating or killing The SRP's activists, let them speak out what they have in their mind and teach those rich -brad kids to behave! Pay attention to the poor, the sick, the unfortunate, the corruption, the deceptive game with us and the Vietcong. By the way, we are so sick and tire of seeing Cambodia runs by the same powerful men year after year and nothing change. Where are those tax money that could have been useful to the rest of the poor people inthe country? Your mentality of one leader for life and sucking up all th emoney into your people's bank account is just not working. We want new face, new rule and new organizing people that could do the job way better. There are many many smart Cambodian men and women that can contribute and build up our country much more effective and perhaps much faster, but people shut them up, kill them and destroy them. You people are a joker! For crying out loud there are homeless people everywhere and you people back home seeing nothing! and nothing! This is why we are so sick and can not stand it! Look may be we are brother and sister, but you got to see what we are seeing sometime and do something! Cambodia is a so very pitty state! Do you understand?
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