Phnom Penh - Thousands of Cambodians waving national flags turned out at the capital's Independence Monument Friday to witness King Norodom Sihamoni light the symbolic flame to mark the 54th anniversary of the country's break from colonial France. However, the man widely credited as the architect of a political solution to growing popular and increasingly armed resistance to French rule in November 1953, 85-year-old former King Norodom Sihanouk, was not present. Only his portrait oversaw the ceremony.
Police estimated that around two thousand people lined the streets around the monument to watch Sihamoni symbolically release pigeons before hundreds of balloons were also sent skyward. Countless more watched the live broadcast on state television.
Sihamoni was born just months before France agreed to withdraw from Cambodia and succeeded his father as monarch in 2004.
The ceremony was also attended by Prime Minister Hun Sen, Senate and National Assembly presidents Chea Sim and Heng Samrin - both former resistance fighters against the French - senior politicians, business leaders and the nation's most senior Buddhist monks.
The flame will burn for three days before being extinguished by Sihamoni in a brief ceremony Sunday. A fireworks celebration on the city's central Tonle Sap river is scheduled for Friday night.
Police estimated that around two thousand people lined the streets around the monument to watch Sihamoni symbolically release pigeons before hundreds of balloons were also sent skyward. Countless more watched the live broadcast on state television.
Sihamoni was born just months before France agreed to withdraw from Cambodia and succeeded his father as monarch in 2004.
The ceremony was also attended by Prime Minister Hun Sen, Senate and National Assembly presidents Chea Sim and Heng Samrin - both former resistance fighters against the French - senior politicians, business leaders and the nation's most senior Buddhist monks.
The flame will burn for three days before being extinguished by Sihamoni in a brief ceremony Sunday. A fireworks celebration on the city's central Tonle Sap river is scheduled for Friday night.
8 comments:
How about celebrate independence from the Vietcong?
All of you fool rejoiced your independence from France while you are still a puppet and slave to the Vietcong!
Please don't take something so fake and make it so real because it really show and stop pretending!
Hey, we can't spend most of the year celebrating holidays, 12:23. We got lot of works to do to get out of poverty.
And ah Fucking Vietnamese just show us that they can get any Cambodian to jail in anytime! Whatch for your independent, Fool!!!!!!!!!!!
They celebrates independence Yuon Vietminh.
The Yuon Viet Minh troops in Cambodia continued to expand gradually as the political and military situation of the regimein power deteriorated. Under the pretext of bringing military assistance for independence in Cambodia, the Yuon Viet Minh forces established themselves more and more deeply in Cambodia. Their method was to move into certain frontier regions to facilitate taking over particular areas in the interior of Cambodia just before the singing of the Geneva agreements in 1954.
These areas of Yuon Viet Minh control were then expanded according to the “oil spot” or “leopard spot” concept.
Cheyo Vietminh!
Cheyo Indochina of Ho Chi Minh!
ParaChey Sihanouk and his patrons!
Cheyo Pak pracheachon Kampuchea dor Mohemear!
Cheyo 7 Makara dor Mohemear!
Cheyo Samdach Hun Sen, Samdach Chea Sim, Samdach Heng Samrin dor Mohemear neiy Pakpracheachon Kampuchea!
Veitminh yoeung chhness huey...!
ParaChey Sihanouk and his patrons!
ParaChey Sihanouk and his patrons!
ParaChey Sihanouk and his patrons!
If the Viet liberate Cambodia from the French and how come Cambodia got her independence in 1953 from France before the Viet? Ahhahahhah!
The Viet got her independence from France after they defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954!
Are you saying that the Viet were so generous to liberate Cambodia before they can liberate themselves from the French? Ahahhahh
The Vietcong theory claim to liberate Cambodia from French is a myth! Somebody prove me wrong here!
Kam Ung! Kam Ung! Kam Ung!
1:38AM
The political movement of the Vietminh-Khmer who pro-communists passed through several stages, marked by parallel trasformations:
1. 1945-1954 During this period, there was development of the movement of Khmer Issarak in Cambodia, the Lao-Issarak in Laos and the Vietminh in North Vietnam, movements all affilliated with the Indo-Chinese Communist Party, directed by Yuon Ho Chi Minh.
2. 1950. This year marked the beginning of the disintegration of the Khmer Issarak movement as certain of the leaders rallied to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, then King of Cambodia. Certain other elements of the Khmer Issarak, however, remained true to their communist ideology, and under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, then in North Vietnam, went underground and continued their activities in Cambodia.
3. 1951 saw the dissolution of the Khmer Issarak movement and the formation of the “Prachea Chon Party” or Party of the People.
4. In 1954, at the time of the conclusion of the Geneva Accords in 1954, it was Prachea Chon Party that decided to send some 5,000 communist syspathizers to North Vietnam for political indoctrination and military training. Such as Thioun Mom, Penn Savann, Chea Soth, Chea Sim, Keo Meas, Keat Chhon, etc....
5. In 1960, the Prachea Chon Party changed its name to “Workers Party” and constituted a central committee for the party at the conclusion of its first plenary session.
(Yuon youk Khmer 5,000 neak tov Banh Chrok Kboun Yuon Hanoi huey mouk kankap srok khmer vinh)hahaha
I see Chkae Yuon in Srok Khmer very clearly NOW!!!
Jeep-A2
1:38, no one can have independent the same time and date. Just because the last battle take more times in Vietnam, doesn't mean they did not liberated or heavily helped to liberated Cambodia in various way.
The bottom line is there can't be any Khmer independence without Vietminh, get it?
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