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PHNOM PENH, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) — More than 1,000 local and foreign reporters have registered with the Ministry of Information to cover the funeral of Cambodian ex-king Norodom Sihanouk early next month, Cambodian government spokesman and information minister Khieu Kanharith said Monday.
Sihanouk died of illness at the age of 90 in Beijing on Oct. 15, last year. Currently, his body is lying in state at Cambodian capital’s Royal Palace for the public to pay tribute.
The body will be moved from the Royal Palace to a custom-built crematorium 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.
“It is expected that at least 1.5 million people will attend the ceremonies,” he said.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that a lot of foreign guests will attend the king’s cremation on Feb. 4.
There will be the firing of cannons three times during the king ‘s procession and cremation, he said, adding that 101 cannon shots will be fired each time.
“It is the largest funeral; we hold it to express our deepest gratitude to the King Father for his royal crusade to gain independence from France (in 1953) and led national construction from 1954 to 1970,” he said.
Sihanouk suffered from various forms of cancer, diabetes and hypertension and had been treated by Chinese doctors in Beijing for years before his death.
He 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.
8 comments:
This idiot ex-king Sihanouk had caused 3 million directly and indirectly people of Cambodian to be slaughtered during Khmer Rouge regime and people of Cambodian still worship him.
My people is the dumb people of the world, that is just my opinion.
Wounder why Cambodian is so poor country.
12:38 AM
I am also Khmer and not your people (you said "my people") and not too dumb as you believed.
You should go out and prove yourself on the world stage, that you are better than other so called dumb Khmer.
replied to 1:17 AM
I am not an azz kisser to the king like you. I had "not"contributed to the 3 million people killed.
I don't need the world stage to prove that I am better. I am already better for not kill my own people. I have contributed a lot of way to society compared to the dead loser who always hanged out with the Communist China and North Korea.
I would like to pee on his ash because many of my families were death because of him.
Save some of his ash for me please.
The king deserves grand celebration because he is a Vietnam Hero . He helped
Vietnam to fight for unification , kicked UN out and promoted Vietnam puppets ...
Without Sihanouk Hun Sen would not be in power for this long - The king father had created monsters to destroy Cambodia , two times ( Pol Pot & Hun Sen ) .
Who cares about Sihanouk. Just one among many traitors who betray the country to keep the throne for his family. Let him die in vain.
I AM THE ONLY ONE SOUL THAT'S HAD BELONG TO SIHANUK WHO HAD FIVE HEADS ARE CHINA,VIETNAMESE,FRENCH,NORTH KOREAN AND ....(SOPHAT=ORPHAN HAD BEEN LEFT ALONE BY COMMUNIST IN 1975-79, FAMILY OF SIX ONLY TWO HAVE SURVIVED)KING O KING IS LIKE SHIT-DOG-EATER BROTHER ,TOO SMART HAD RUN AROUND LIKE CRAZY ASKING FOR HELP BUT HAD GONE ONLY COMMUNIST COUNTRY THAT IS THE REASON. SIHANUK HAD KISS PEOPLE WAY TOO MUCH,GOD HAS SAID (DON'T MAKE LOVE SO MUCH BE RIGHTEOUS ONES)I'VE BEEN WAITING LONG TIME FOR RIGHTEOUS-MAN=SIHANUK TO MAKE KHMER HAPPY AGAIN LIKE INDEPENDENCE FROM COMMUNIST. SOVIET=USSR IS ONE STEP BEHIND USA=AMERICA AND SIHANUK=KING IS ONE STEP BEHIND SHIT-DOG-EATER=COMMUNIST VIETNAMESE,IT IS SO SO SHAME FOR THE WORLD TO SEE(RECORD OF KILLING FIELD).
REMEMBER PUPPET CCP= SLAVED-DOG-EATER HUN SEN HAD SAID THAT HE HAS MADE KING AS LONG AS HE IS IN POWER AND CLOSING THE DOOR KILLING THE DOG. SMART HUN SEN BUT THE DEVIL KINDS FOR HIS BOSS SHIT-DOG-EATER(EVIL NATION VIETNAMESE)THE WORLD HAD KNOWN THAT IS CHEAT-CHEAP NATION ON EARTH.
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