Part 7 of the never-ending battle: Where King-Father describes what has been hurting him "very, very" much in the past 38 years

Translated from French by Tola Ek

History

“An insult that hurts me a lot”
By N. Sihanouk

1- During the SRN era, pupils, middle school students, high school students (boys and girls) adored me as if I was a God.

2- The day after Lon Nol’s Putsch (18 March 1970), these same pupils, middle school students, high school students (boys and girls) started to insult me with a never heard of meanness.

3- One of the insults which hurts me very, very much up until now (May 2008) is the following: “We got rid of Sihanouk, why our Republican-Lonnolian regime is not able to get rid of the Sihanoukian corruption? Nowadays, this corruption is even worst than under Sihanouk.”

I hate to the maximum all forms of Injustice.

The Lonnolians deposed me because, among other things, I fought against corruption without compromise.

I thought that our school and university youth loved Justice. Now, following the “success” of the Putsch by the extremely-corrupt Lonnolians, this youth became “blind”: it pretended to “believe” that “Sihanouk was the Corruption” and that the Lonnolians got rid of the “Sihanouk-Corruption.” And at the height of this “blindness,” this youth had the audacity to say: “We got rid of Sihanouk. Instead of leaving with Sihanouk, the Corruption remained in our country and it (corruption) becomes even worst.” The truth is that the Lonnolians and Sirikmatakians deposed me so that their Corruption became boundless. I did everything possible to limit this Corruption from happening in our country.

(Signed) Norodom Sihanouk

Part 5 of the never-ending battle: When the 18 March 1970 Putschists and their young supporters were divided

Translated from French by Tola Ek

History

“When the 18 March 1970 Putschists and their young supporters were divided”
By N. Sihanouk

The great, serious and prestigious French newspaper, “Le Monde,” (successively) published in 1972, several articles dedicated to Lonnolian students who started to denounce the extreme decay of the Lonnolian regime (Khmer Republic), its dictatorship, its multiple other flaws; (several articles) dedicated also to In Tam, to the “famous” Sirik Matak and other “Khmer Republic” personalities who became fierce “opponents” to Lon Nol, (and) who denounced their own regime formed on 18 March 1970.

(80s Decade). H.E. In Tam even became “Sihanoukist” again, and I made him “Commander of the Sihanoukist armed forces” … until the moment when the Republic of Singapore told me “not to use In Tam anymore” –sic!–

H.E. Cheng Heng also “returned” back to me.

I consider that H.E. In Tam and H.E. Cheng Heng derserve my affection (or, more precisely, the return of my affection to the two of them). As for Prince Sirik Matak, I raised his wife and his children to the rank of Royal Highnesses.

(Signed) Nodorom Sihanouk
May 2008