Saturday, December 27, 2008

Ex-Cambodian king fighting cancer

Friday, December 26, 2008
The Associated Press

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk is fighting his third bout with cancer but is optimistic he will recover and return to his homeland from China, according to a message on his Web site.

The 86-year-old Sihanouk, in a statement dated Wednesday, said he was being treated by Chinese doctors in Beijing for lymphoma B cancer and would not return to Cambodia as planned in February.

Sihanouk, a dominant figure in Cambodian politics for six decades, abdicated in 2004, citing poor health. He was succeeded by one of his sons, Norodom Sihamoni, and has since spent much of his time in China.

In recent years, he has suffered from a number of ailments, including colon cancer, diabetes, hypertension and two strokes.

Sihanouk is also one of the world's great survivors having lived through wars, the Khmer Rouge terror and fierce political struggles beginning with his quest for independence from France in the early 1950s.

On the Web site, Sihanouk said he would return to Cambodia several months after his scheduled arrival when he was well again. He successfully battled two earlier bouts with the disease.

"In this regard, they (doctors) are optimistic," he wrote.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

may our lord buddha..bless our king father...for a long live...so that yuon cannot take over too soon......hope all khmer open their eye...see who really take over our land now...stop dreaming...and stand up for our belove land before toooo late...

Anonymous said...

To The Main Actor of Khmer Killing Fields, Norodom Sihanouk,

You did commit a hatred Human crimes against Humanity against your own subjects by killing over two millions khmer citizen, and you never took your RESPONSIBILITY on your crimes.

You did not, have not and will not be remorseful at all.

You will die of your SINS no later than at your 88th or 89th year old.

The author of Norna Chea Kheatakors Reas Khmers ?

Anonymous said...

may god bless our retired king-father.

Anonymous said...

in the khmer rouge court ,was veto (mean not allow to take 6 suspects from recently goverment to question about the rules of their duty in khmer regime. if they claim khmer had made the killing field .should releast them to question by international judge.
sometime father help them as frendly but never know ah YUON ,friend eat friend

Anonymous said...

1:22 AM
The author of Norna Chea Kheatakors Reas Khmers ?
We know your name is Hin Sithan, a khmer one third chinese blood, and your wife is Siam during the Siam ruled the North western part of Cambodia. Now you are living in Washington state. All the people in Washington state knew you and your family are relate to #2 Khmer Rouge. And your book was the
scapegoat to someone else. The Lady in Tacoma said you were secretly joined the khmer Rouge in 1969 while your were teacher at Battambang by the help of her family. We knew most Khmer Rouge were secretly organized by schools and teachers.

The author of Norna Chea Kheatakors Reas Khmers ?
Is Hin Sithan.

Anonymous said...

Shit, how many cancerous problems does this guy have? And how come he always survives them and never die? Damn him!

Anonymous said...

Dying of cancer is very painful and it can be a very slow death as well...