Xinhua
Cambodia will hold the second time of a week-long mourning for the most revered King Father Norodom Sihanouk from Feb. 1-7 during which the King Father's body will be cremated, according to a government's circular released to the media on Wednesday.
Sihanouk died of illness at the age of 90 in Beijing on Oct. 15, last year and his body was returned to Phnom Penh by Air China jumbo jet on Oct. 17. The country announced the first 7-day period of mourning from Oct. 17-23; then, his body is lying in state at Cambodian capital's Royal Palace for the public to pay their last respects.
According to the circular signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday, Sihanouk's body will be moved from the Royal Palace to a cremation site, built at the Meru field next to the Palace, on Feb. 1 and kept it for another three days at the site before it is cremated on Feb. 4.
"During the 2nd mourning period, all radios and TV stations as well as entertainment places must suspend broadcasting joyful spectacles, performances, and concerts," it said. "Flags must be all flying at half-mast."
The circular also instructed all Cambodian people to pin black ribbons to their shirts as a sign of mourning.
It added that all civil servants will be allowed to take a two- day holiday on Feb. 1 and 4.
The procession of moving the King's body from the Royal Palace to the cremation site on Feb. 1 and the cremation ceremony on Feb. 4 will be live broadcast through all radios and TV channels in the country.
Born on Oct. 31, 1922, Sihanouk ruled Cambodia from 1941 to 1955 and again from 1993 until his voluntary abdication on Oct. 7, 2004 in favor of his son, the current King Norodom Sihamoni.
He suffered from various forms of cancer, diabetes and hypertension and had been treated by Chinese doctors in Beijing for years before his death.
Sihanouk wrote in a royal letter in January, 2012 that he requested his body to be cremated instead of being buried and his ashes to be put in an urn, preferably made of gold, and placed in a stupa at the Royal Palace.
5 comments:
Enough is enough lets the gook goes! you gains nothing by keep on mourning,you lose nothing by lets this useless deceased gook goes....Fishes needs foods you better off throw the corpse of this dead's old gook in the River for fishes and crabs to eat to complete its circle of lives.
Yummareaj
Well,I yummabal already had the soul of your gook's king in the chamber below the pit of Hell now he won't be released until his bad deeds are paid according to my calculation he'll stay down for at least 1000yrs.Now i need the soul of Chea Sim any time soon this gook's dog had committed bad deeds as well he deserve to be in my chamber in the pit of Hell as well.Here souls that i need most;
-Henry Kissinger
-Heng Samrin
-Hun Sen
-Sok Anh
-Sok Chito
well,Yummabal has to open more lists and let you all know later on....So long from Hell where Yummabal office was.
Yummabal
Suspend all entertainment activity?
Asshes put in a gold Urn?
Really?
while the CPP steal cambodia resources and children are starving,
Your king want an golden urn?
IF khmer can't see this, khmer are as dumb as seeing his face on the moon. Uncle Ho laughing his mustach off.
Ah Hun Sen hates ah Sihaknuk to the guts,to win the opposition party by taking the traitor king as the pretext and waste more Cambodians tax paying,just take it to the temple mortuary they will burn it in the second that is why I waited to the time limit s day to change my citizen status.
Group of ignorant and can do anythings with the foreigners but only their own.
Enough
Why waste all the energy on the ex-stupid king who hanged out with dictatorship of North Korea and Communist china.
I agree with the above statement that our Cambodian people are so stupid who wtill still worship a loser and a killer of its own people.
Norodumb is the most stupid blood line and useless of any modern rulers.
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