DPA
Phnom Penh - Cambodia officially opened its 24 million- dollar new National Assembly Saturday in a lavish traditional Buddhist ceremony presided over by King Norodom Sihamoni and seven of the nation's most venerable Buddhist monks.
With 7,777 guests in attendance, the timing of the opening to coincide with the anniversary of factional fighting in 1997 which ousted then First Prime Minister and Funcinpec leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh was almost certainly for its astrological significance rather than irony.
Cambodian People's Party (CPP) lawmaker Cheam Yeap declared that 2007 was the anniversary of democracy which was established in Cambodia in late 1946. Observers noted that Prince Norodom Sihanouk's rule from 1953 until UN-organized elections in 1993 Cambodia was ruled by single parties.
The new National Assembly was built entirely by Cambodians, from architectural design to construction, and using only Cambodian funding, Cheam Yeap added.
King Sihamoni said the new building was 'a great monument to Cambodia's idealism and commitment' to democracy.
Neither the CPP nor its junior coalition partner Funcinpec marked the anniversary of the July 5 and 6 fighting, which left hundreds dead, saying that was in the past. Instead they turned their full attention to Saturday's ceremony.
A public museum inside the National Assembly includes a remarkably record of Cambodia's strides towards its current multi-party democracy, with a rollcall of parliamentarians from 1946 onward listing 10 names of the Khmer Rouge's Democratic Kampuchea (DK) regime leaders.
Brother Number 2, Nuon Chea, who is expected to be a prime candidate to face impending 56-million dollar joint Cambodia-UN trials of former leaders of the regime, tops the list rather than the movement's deceased leader Pol Pot. It was unclear why only 10 of 250 DK parliamentarians' names were recorded.
Saturday's ceremony was attended by the nation's parliamentarians and senators from all parties, as well as a range of dignitaries and representatives from foreign embassies.
Although the building is extensively and almost exclusively decorated with prime examples of Cambodian artwork, one tribute from a foreign nation was prominently displayed during the opening tour - a gift of a large painting of the Great Wall of China presented by the Chinese government just days before the inauguration.
With 7,777 guests in attendance, the timing of the opening to coincide with the anniversary of factional fighting in 1997 which ousted then First Prime Minister and Funcinpec leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh was almost certainly for its astrological significance rather than irony.
Cambodian People's Party (CPP) lawmaker Cheam Yeap declared that 2007 was the anniversary of democracy which was established in Cambodia in late 1946. Observers noted that Prince Norodom Sihanouk's rule from 1953 until UN-organized elections in 1993 Cambodia was ruled by single parties.
The new National Assembly was built entirely by Cambodians, from architectural design to construction, and using only Cambodian funding, Cheam Yeap added.
King Sihamoni said the new building was 'a great monument to Cambodia's idealism and commitment' to democracy.
Neither the CPP nor its junior coalition partner Funcinpec marked the anniversary of the July 5 and 6 fighting, which left hundreds dead, saying that was in the past. Instead they turned their full attention to Saturday's ceremony.
A public museum inside the National Assembly includes a remarkably record of Cambodia's strides towards its current multi-party democracy, with a rollcall of parliamentarians from 1946 onward listing 10 names of the Khmer Rouge's Democratic Kampuchea (DK) regime leaders.
Brother Number 2, Nuon Chea, who is expected to be a prime candidate to face impending 56-million dollar joint Cambodia-UN trials of former leaders of the regime, tops the list rather than the movement's deceased leader Pol Pot. It was unclear why only 10 of 250 DK parliamentarians' names were recorded.
Saturday's ceremony was attended by the nation's parliamentarians and senators from all parties, as well as a range of dignitaries and representatives from foreign embassies.
Although the building is extensively and almost exclusively decorated with prime examples of Cambodian artwork, one tribute from a foreign nation was prominently displayed during the opening tour - a gift of a large painting of the Great Wall of China presented by the Chinese government just days before the inauguration.
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Saturday, July 07, 2007
Total of autonomy: as you have had been asking today (and the past decades), however, you people have completely and utterly forgotten the fact that the acquisition of total autonomy is insurmountably infeasible; however, you people can merely ASK for a greater autonomy for a potential autonomous sovereignty region--not total autonomy!
Khmer-Youn
May all Mighty bless and protect Prime Minister Hun Sen!
To 8:16PM!
AH KHMER-YOUN lop lop lop! Fuck your Vietcong concept of autonomy! This is the new concept of autonomy of Cambodia from now on! First, the concept of total autonomy for Cambodia is to destroy all the fucken Vietcong illegal treaties signed between AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave and the Vietcong master! Second, to free all Khmer people including the Khmer Krom people from the Vietcong domination through political, economic, and military mean! Third, Cambodia must pursue the removal of AH HUNS SEN regime by any mean necessary! Fourth, Cambodia must find the real killer behind the killing field including all the Vietcong involvements with the Khmer Rouge...
To the end, the Vietcong oppressors don't deserve any peace and stability! It is by God command that all Khmer people must free from the Vietcong domination!
Khmer-youn, you need to take the word KHMER out from your name. You don't deserve to have it. Do you think khmer will let you control us? Right now, you can only control a certain group of people. Be ready, we will take back our land and our people. We will cause destruction(no matter how small)to your country like you did to us. We will not let your country prosper like it is today, we will cause chaos so that investors will not invest in your country. We will make sure your children and generations to come will have a hard life forever. They can blame it on youn's greediness and older generation. Since you want our land and control us so bad, this is what we're going to do to you so that both of us will suffer endlessly. You don't seem to understand when we use word to communicate. Perhaps, amunitions and destruction to your land will make you understand.
I'M FROM CALIFORNIA SUPPORTING ALL YOUR CONCEPT 150% EXCEP KHMER -YOUN I TELL YOU WHAT KHMER YUON WITH THE WAKE UP OF KHMER NATIONALISM,KHMER KROM AND LATELY FROM LAO MHONG FROM CALIFORNIA ,PLEASE FIND YOUR WAY GO BACK HOME YOUR YUON THIEVE&AGGRESSORS .
CHINNA KNOWS YUON 'S GUT THE BIG CHEATERS.
SOVIET UNION BROKE CAN'TBE YUON BACKWATER.
U S A KNOWS YUON IS USA 'S KILLER IN VIETNAM WAR. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR YUON FATE? YOUR YUON BLEEDING OUR BLOOD WAIT,IT IS GOING TO YOUR TURN NOW YOUR DAMN AGRESSORS
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