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| A woman mourns the death of former King Norodom Sihanouk at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, October 16, 2012. |
16.10.2012
VOA
Cambodians entered a second day of mourning Tuesday for their revered former king Norodom Sihanouk, as preparations were made to return his body from China.
Tearful mourners placed a small wreath outside the royal palace in the Cambodian capital and offered prayers for the man they called "King-Father," who died of a heart attack in Beijing Monday.
"I lost the king, it's like I lost a father," said one Cambodian mourner. "Fathers take care of their children, and it's like we lost a father. It's a big loss for the family."
His son, King Norodom Sihamoni, and Prime Minister Hun Sen have gone to Beijing to collect the body in a gold coffin. It will lie in state at the royal palace for three months before being cremated at a traditional Buddhist ceremony.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was among those who paid respects to Sihanouk Tuesday, calling him an "old friend of the Chinese people."
Other condolence messages continued to pour in from around the world. The United States, which helped topple Sihanouk in a Washington-backed 1970 coup, offered condolences in a brief State Department memo.
North Korea, whose founder Kim Il Sung was close with Sihanouk, on Tuesday praised the former leader's "unprecedented" friendship with Pyongyang.
Sihanouk died early Monday in Beijing following a long battle with cancer. He was 89.
Sihanouk came to the throne in 1941 and went on to rule Cambodia off and on for more than 60 years.
He was heralded for bringing his ancient kingdom through independence from France, war and genocide to form a fragile democracy. But Sihanouk's name is also still soiled from his association with the Khmer Rouge movement, blamed for the deaths of some 1.7 million Cambodians.
Sihanouk abdicated the throne to his son, Norodom Sihamoni, in 2004 citing old age and health concerns.
9 comments:
For litle that you have done for Cambodia...Rest in peace, Sihanouk (bowing..)!
Should there be any reincarnation - redeem yourself by waking up to help rid of all the Viet invaders forever out of Cambodia!!!
signed: The approx. 2 millions Khmer's life lost (including my entire family) under your watch...
An orphan now moving forward alone...
I lost Sihanouk,the evil king,
but I still remembered my three
million Khmer lives and my Khmer
land to Vietnam because of him.
So let him go to hell.
Burn his body over there (China). Don't bring back to Cambodia. He was a Traitor to Khmer people. The Khmer people have suffered enough by him. He did not respect even his own mother. He was an evil king . He should be alive until he can serve his punishement in the Khmer Rouge trail. Please don't forget he was the person who killed Lok Protean Sam Rainsy's father.
Pang Sokheoun, Secretary-General of SRP in Sweden.កុលបុត្រមហានគរខ្មែរ
7:39 AM
I too was an orphan 2 month old, my mother passed away while people were forced to leave the cities, but my father's servants (couple husband and wife) raised me as their own. My father was not at home but at Hospital, he was Dr. when Khmer Rouge and Yuon Rouge defeated Lon Nol. He passed away later on I heard when I grew up.
I am not angry or upset with the King or with the Viets at all. I believed he was a patriot, I don't believe he killed his own people.
The wars, disease and starvation have been like that since the beginning of time, and they are going to be like that until the end of the universe. We hear it everyday around the world.
To me I believed what has happened to me in this life are the results from what I did in my many past life.
I accepted it and I am living happy and trying to build good deeds.
Something happens for reasons, and humans cannot fight or change the destiny.
We cannot live that long, sooner we all will die. The Conquerors die and the looser also die.
12:13 pm
you keep copying & pasting the same and same shit over & over again.
the king's body is in phnom penh already and million khmers in the whole country including outside cambodia pray for his soul.
million condolences pouring in the palace royal.
and you use a pseudoname in sam rainsy party to fool people. guess what yuon' games don't work anymore.
you dumb azz don't even know the facts that sam sary was killed by yuon in south, and yuon in south was a doubled agent of "cia".
why the "cia" killed him? the US did not want king sihanouk to accuse them of harboring khmer serei. khmer serei group was paid by the US's clients: thailand and south vietnam. khmer serei group was dumped by US president lendon johnson.
like you who are not khmer but yuon, you play game blackmail sam rainsy. you intentionally try to harm sam rainsy so the khmers who love the king won't vote for sam rainsy. you are so evil.
mother fucker, i've lost the king like i've lost father my ass. My life is just fine without this godamn king. This dumb ass king have never feed me or my khmer people, they strive their best effort to feed themself.
Cry but still enjoy taking photo to post in Facebook to show that I cry for the king lol
ONLY AH TMIL ET SASNA KHMER ROUGE LIKE YOU HAS NO REMORSE FOR THE DEAD!!!
TO AH RORLEAY 12:13PM
STOP BARKING ASSHOLE, DID YOU NOT HAVE A CLUE THAT NOBODY LISTENS TO YOU, MOTHERFUCKER!
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