Click on the photo to zoomTranslated from French by Luc Sâr
February 1973
On the eve of the great departure from North Vietnam to Kampuchea, along the Ho Chi Minh trail, General Vo Nguyen Giap and his wife paid a visit to Norodom Sihanouk and Princess Monique in their residence, located in a “discrete” place near Hanoi.
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Sihanouk said he never associated with Vietnam in real life, so this must be in his movies.
ENEMY BECOME FRIEND WHEN THEY COME TO DESPARATE TIME AND VIS VERSA.
SADDAM OF IRAQ WAS A FRIEND OF US DURING IRAN-IRAQ WAR, THEN WAS ARRESTED BY US AND PUT TO DEAD BY US-BACKED IRAQI GOVT.
KHMER ROUGE FOUGHT ALONG SIDE WITH NORTH VN IN EARLY 1970s- BECAME BITTER ENEMY AFTER THAT.
Go with USA and liberate Khmers.
Khmers are the owner of Cambodia.
We beleive what he said Yin Sem in RFA.
Real justice!.Because he was Mé khmer Krorhaom.
If Khmer is smart, Khmer will make good use of Sihanouk before he dies. Enough said?
The Viet uses Sihanouk, the Chinese uses Sihanouk, Hun Sen uses Sihanouk, why can't Khmer make good use of Sihanouk before he dies?
Don't let Sihanouk go to waste Khmer people!
In the spring of 1965, he made a deal with China and North Vietnam to allow the presence of permanent North Vietnamese bases in eastern Cambodia and to allow military supplies from China to reach Vietnam by Cambodian ports. Cambodia and Cambodian individuals were compensated by Chinese purchases of the Cambodian rice crop by China at inflated prices. He also at this time made any number of speeches calling the triumph of Communism in Southeast Asia inevitable and suggesting Maoist ideas were worthy of emulation. In 1966 and 1967, Sihanouk unleashed a wave of political repression that drove many on the left out of mainstream politics. His policy of friendship with China collapsed due to the extreme attitudes in China at the peak of the Cultural Revolution. The combination of political repression and problems with China made his balancing act impossible to sustain. He had alienated the left, allowed the North Vietnamese to establish bases within Cambodia and staked everything on China's good will. On March 18, 1970, while he was travelling out of the country, Lon Nol, the prime minister, convened the National Assembly which voted to depose Sihanouk as head of state and give emergency powers to Lon Nol. Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, a royal prince who, in 1941, had been passed over by the French government in favor of his cousin Norodom Sihanouk's leadership role, retained his post as Deputy Prime Minister. Prince Sihanouk fled to Beijing and began to support the Khmer Rouge in their struggle to overthrow the Lon Nol government in Phnom Penh. When the Khmer Republic fell to the Khmer Rouge in April 1975, Prince Sihanouk became the symbolic head of state of the new régime while Pol Pot remained in power. The next year, on April 4, 1976, the Khmer Rouge forced Sihanouk out of office again and into political retirement. During the Vietnamese invasion, he was sent to New York to speak against Vietnam before the United Nations. After his speech, he sought refuge in China and in North Korea.
The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in December 1978 ousted the Khmer Rouge. Although claiming to be wary of the Khmer Rouge, Prince Sihanouk was more than willing to again join forces with them in order to provide a united front against the Vietnamese. In 1982, he became president of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK), which consisted of his own Funcinpec party, Son Sann's KPNLF, and the Khmer Rouge. The Vietnamese withdrew in 1989, leaving behind a pro-Vietnamese government under ex-Khmer Rouge cadre Hun Sen to run the People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK).
[edit] Restoration
Peace negotiations between the CGDK and the PRK commenced shortly thereafter and continued until 1991 when all sides agreed to a comprehensive settlement which they signed in Paris. Prince Sihanouk returned once more to Cambodia on November 14, 1991 after thirteen years in exile.
In 1993, Sihanouk once again became king of Cambodia. During the restoration, however, he suffered from ill health and traveled repeatedly to Beijing for medical treatment.
Sihanouk's leisure interests include music (he has composed songs in Khmer, French, and English) and film. He has become a prodigious filmmaker over the years, directing many movies and orchestrating musical compositions. He became one of the first heads of state in the region to have a personal website, which has proven a cult hit. It draws more than a thousand visitors a day, which constitutes a substantial portion of his nation's Internet users. Royal statements are posted there daily.
King Sihanouk went into self-imposed exile in January 2004, taking up residence in Pyongyang, North Korea and later in Beijing, China. Citing reasons of ill health, he announced his abdication of the throne on October 7, 2004. The constitution of Cambodia made no provision for such a move. Chea Sim, the President of the Senate assumed the title of acting Head of State (a title he has held many times before), until the throne council met on October 14 and appointed Norodom Sihamoni, one of Sihanouk's sons, as the new king.
[edit] Family
In his lifetime, King Norodom Sihanouk reportedly has had several wives and concubines, producing at least fourteen children in a period of eleven years. According to Time magazine (30 June 1956), however, his only legal wives have been Princess Samdech Norleak (married 1955) and Paule Monique Izzi (married 1955), who is a granddaughter of HRH Prince Norodom Duongchak of Cambodia and the younger daughter of Pomme Peang and her second husband, Jean-François Izzi, a banker. A profile of Sihanouk in The New York Times (4 June 1993, page A8) stated that the king met Monique Izzi in 1951, when he awarded her a prize in a beauty pageant.
According to Royal Ark's genealogy of the Cambodian royal family, however, Sihanouk has been married seven times, his consorts being:[1]
(1) Neak Moneang Phat Kanhol (1920-1969, a member of the Royal Cambodian Ballet; married 1942, later divorced)
HRH Samdech Preah Ream Bupha Devi (1943-)
HRH Samdech Preah Krom Norodom Ranariddh (1944-)
(2) HRH Princess Sisowath Pongsanmoni (1929-1974; married 1942, divorced 1951)
HRH Samdech Borom Reamea Norodom Yuvaneath (1943-)
HRH Samdech Norodom Racvivong Sihanouk (1944-1973)
Samdech Preah Mohesarra Norodom Chakrapong (1945-)
HRH Samdech Princess Norodom Sorya Roeungsay (1947-1976)
HRH Princess Norodom Kantha Bopha (1948-1952)
HRH Samdech Norodom Khemanourak Sihanouk (1949-1975)
HRH Samdech Princess Norodom Botum Bopha (1951-1976)
(3) Anak Munang Thach (married 1943)
(4) HRH Princess Sisowath Monikessan (née HRH Princess Sisowath Naralaksha Munikesara, 1929-1946; married 1944)
HRH Samdech Norodom Naradipo (1946-1976)
(5) HRH Princess Samdech Preah Reach Kanitha Norodom Norleak (née Princess Devisa Naralakshmi, born 1927; married 1946 and "more formally" on 4 March 1955)
(6) Mam Manivan Phanivong (née Mam Munivarni Barni Varman, 1934-1975; married 1949)
HRH Princess Norodom Socheatha Sujata (1953-1975)
HRH Samdech Preah Anoch Norodom Arunrasmy (1955-)
(7) HM Queen Norodom Monineath Sihanouk (née Paule Monique Izzi, born 18 June 1936; married 12 April 1952 and "more formally" on 5 March 1955)
HM King Norodom Sihamoni (1953-)
HRH Samdech Norodom Narindrapong (1954-2003)
" until now, SIHANOUK never has had the royal wedding. when a women was attractive and beautiful, he asked his lackey to bring her to the royal palace.
If the relation lasted for a while and his concubines got children, he gave her a title as a royal concubine such as: MAM, NEAK MONEANG, KHUN etc...
- NEAK MONEANG Phat Kanhol, a member of the Royal Ballet (from 1942...).
- the princess SISOWATH Pongsanmoni (his AUNT) who was the daughter of HIS GRAND FATHER king SISOWATH Monivong, and the HALF SISTER of his MOTHER queen SISOWATH KOSSOMAK.( he was incestuous!)(from 1942...).
- Anak Munang Thach (from 1943...)
- The princess SISOWATH Monikessan ( his AUNT too) who was the DAUGHTER of the HIS GRAND FATHER King SISOWATH Monivong, and the HALF SISTER of his MOTHER Queen SISOWATH Kossomak. (he was again incestuous, isn't he? ( from 1944..
- Princess NORODOM NORLEAK, his cousin who is the niece of his mother QUEEN KOSSOMAK. When her and her husband had been introduced to SIHANOUK after their marriage; for him it was a love at first sight and the end justifies the means!
*In 1946 He stated relation with her .
*In 1955 he legalized her
as the first spouse ( Monique Izzi as the second wife in 1955 too.)
- MAM Manivan Phanivong (a Laotian)
that it was a love at first sight for him again, when he made a visit to Lao country in 1949.
- The last one, Monique Izzi became his last concubine in 1952 and was legalized as a second wife at the same time than princess Norodom Norleak."
Honestly:
Can Sam Raingsy alone win the 2008 election?
Can Kem Sokha alone win the 2008 election?
Can Sam Raingsy and Kem Sokha et al together united win the 2008 election?
If not,
Can Sihanouk be Khmer's last resort solution to Khmer's problem?
Khmer people, please think:
The Viet uses Sihanouk, the Chinese uses Sihanouk, Hun Sen uses Sihanouk, why can't Khmer make good use of Sihanouk before he dies?
Don't let Sihanouk go to waste Khmer people!
Enough said?
Sihanouk and his family are evil. When people are good, they distroy them.
Hun Xen is using Shihanouk, Enought! Can you compete with Hun Xen? Where is your money?
Shihanouk require money, BOY!
He is the tool of evil!!!!
Sure, we can Man. It's called Politics!
Is it really bad to side with him? We love our culture and our culture have King , Queen etc...King Sihanouk likes everybody else wants to be loved and cared for. It's about time that Mr. Sam Rainsey or someone is out to assure him that Khmer Serei or Khmer Republic are not at all bad.
Sure, China is his best friend and she is Communist, but that doesn't mean, we cann't do business with China. We'll just have to watch for a certain thing. Business is business and trade is trade. What China does that isn't right, may be our next generation can open their eyes up a little better.
Fine line, Cambodia and someone got to do it.
American did it. European and most Middle-East states did it. Thailand did it. The Olympic of the world will be in China this Summer. What is wrong with us?
American married one of his grandaughter and did anyone take notice? People can get along and seeing thing that should be seen better. Shall We?
To say the true, American can use King Sihanouk to get to know North Korean better and what comes next? He could be very well the next peace maker between the two. We pray that it will happen. So that the world can be a peaceful place for all to live and enjoy.
When that day comes, nothing and nothing is better!!!!
Ordinary Khmers
No, Sihanouk never....ever associated with Yuon Vietcong, but
Sihanouk, accepted the following three conditions:
1. Permit China to continue to use Khmer territory to resupply the NVA/VC/NFL with weapons,munitions, and materiel so as to continue the war against American in South Vietnam.
2. Sihanouk Authorized the NVA/VC/NFL to establish their bases in Cambodia as before (1954).
3. Sihanouk Continues to support North Vietnam and the Vietcong with propaganda.
Sihanouk is Chkae Yuon & Chine.
That was his bigest bigest mistake of all!, but that is how half of the people in the world see it.
His side, he didn't get along with The American and figured out that China can treat him better. To this day, No One, we mean No One can treat King and his family better than China ,except may be North Korea.
How to convince a man that there are other good people out there for him beside China and North Korea? That is the question for his former enermies and perhaps, the new Cambodian political party such as Mr. Sam Rainsey's party to ask themself and come up with some new strategies to win this man and put him to a useful force and not a destruction one.
With the KRT is underway, it's going to be very very difficult to prove or seperate his ( King ) involvment with the Khmer Rouge and from all the doubts that many are still strongly believed that he did it or that he is the one who then ( from 1975 to 1979 )helped killing 2 millions of his own people.
Let's go back to 1993, how did he get out from all those troubles? and be one again crowned as King of Cambodia?
This time is going to be very very hard, wouldn't it King? Good luck to you and good luck to us!
Ordinary Khmers
11:49 PM:
I'm remarkably intrigued and impressed of your knowledge of the history.
Khmer forever! Yuon out of Cambodia!
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