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Cambodian former King Norodom Sinahouk dies at age of 90 in Beijing

I guess Vietnamese rule was even worse than Pol Pot because the Cambodians hates you're gutts.

The Khmer Rouge period (1975–1979) refers to the rule of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan, they were best friends of China.
Modern research has located 20,000 mass graves from the Khmer Rouge era all over Cambodia. Various studies have estimated the death toll at between 740,000 and 3,000,000, most commonly between 1.4 million and 2.2 million, with perhaps half of those deaths being due to executions, and the rest from starvation and disease.[7]
The U.S. State Department-funded Yale Cambodian Genocide Project estimates approximately 1.7 million.[8] R. J. Rummel, an analyst of historical political killings, gives a figure of 2 million.[9]
A UN investigation reported 2–3 million dead, while UNICEF estimated 3 million had been killed.[10] Demographic analysis by Patrick Heuveline suggests that between 1.17 and 3.42 million Cambodians were killed,[11] while Marek Sliwinski estimates that 1.8 million is a conservative figure.[12] Researcher Craig Etcheson of the Documentation Center of Cambodia suggests that the death toll was between 2 and 2.5 million, with a "most likely" figure of 2.2 million. After 5 years of researching grave sites, he concluded that "these mass graves contain the remains of 1,386,734 victims of execution".[7]


Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And here the memorial statue for Vietnamese soldiers in Phnompenh today.

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Vietnamese, Lao, Thai PMs mourn Sihanouk


Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was the first of the three to pay homage on Oct. 19 at the Royal Palace in the capital, where Sihanouk's body lies in state. Vietnam is Cambodia's historical enemy but a major ally of Prime Minister Hun Sen's government.

Delegations led by Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong of Laos and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra of Thailand -- with which Cambodia has sometimes had strained relations -- later paid their respects.

All three leaders held talks separately with Hun Sen.

full story: Vietnamese, Lao, Thai PMs mourn Sihanouk - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
 
Vietnamese, Lao, Thai PMs mourn Sihanouk


Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was the first of the three to pay homage on Oct. 19 at the Royal Palace in the capital, where Sihanouk's body lies in state. Vietnam is Cambodia's historical enemy but a major ally of Prime Minister Hun Sen's government.

Delegations led by Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong of Laos and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra of Thailand -- with which Cambodia has sometimes had strained relations -- later paid their respects.

All three leaders held talks separately with Hun Sen.

full story: Vietnamese, Lao, Thai PMs mourn Sihanouk - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

The Vietnamese see Laotians and Cambodians are brothers, not enemies, though Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge party had hostile ideology to Vietnam.


And here the memorial statue for Vietnamese soldiers in Phnompenh today.

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I would like to introduce more some pictures: Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Monument in Phnom Penh

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Viets should get out of this thread, giving the man a little bit respect. The King fought against French, American, Vietnamese, and Khmer Rouge. He hated the Vietnamese so much. He spoke in the UN that he could not thank VN even though Viets defeated Pol Pot. You were invaders.
 
Viets should get the fxxking out of this thread, giving the man a little bit respect. The King fought against French, American, Vietnamese, and Khmer Rouge. He hated the Vietnamese so much. He spoke in the UN that he could not thank VN even though Viets defeated Pol Pot. You were fxxking invaders.

hmmm... no bad language here...
 
did he die or was he made to die? thats the question.

If you are not familiar with the history of the king, pls do some search on internet about the king. He hates Veitnam, that's all! He would not be glad to see anything Vietnam here...

did he die or was he made to die? thats the question.

Mis Miss, that's a good guestion. Very wise, very interesting, very reasonable, very very considerable...indeed
 
If you are not familiar with the history of the king, pls do some search on internet about the king. He hates Veitnam, that's all! He would not be glad to see anything Vietnam here...

You are a Liar!

Clearly he was exploited by the US and China as a card to salvage their face after feeling ashamed because they [US and China] had supported Khmer Rouge.

However, he is not an anti-Vietnam like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

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Cambodian royal family starts four-day visit to Viet Nam
Updated June, 23 2010 09:36:06

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President Nguyen Minh Triet (second right) welcomes former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, Queen Mother Norodom Moninieth Sihanouk and King Norodom Sihamoni. — VNA/VNS Photo Nguyen Khang


HA NOI — Former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, Queen Mother Norodom Moninieth Sihanouk and King Norodom Sihamoni arrived in Ha Noi yesterday to start a four-day visit to Viet Nam at the invitation of President Nguyen Minh Triet.
President Triet hailed the royal family as close and esteemed friends of the Vietnamese people.
He said the visit was a special event in relations between the neighbouring countries, who had a long history of co-operation and traditional friendship.
In President Triet's meeting with former King Norodom Sihanouk and Queen Mother Norodom Moninieth Sihanouk, the two sides reviewed the two countries' histories, including both nations' struggles for independence.
Vietnamese and generations of Vietnamese leaders always remembered, respected and were thankful for the profound sentiments and support of the former king and Cambodian people to Viet Nam in the past and during the present, said Triet.
In reply, Sihanouk thanked Vietnamese leaders for their valuable sentiments and support to his family and Cambodia during the past and at present.
Triet and Sihanouk expressed their delight at continued development in friendly relations between Viet Nam and Cambodia. They said they believed bilateral ties would continue to be consolidated and developed in the time to come. —VNS

Cambodian royal family starts four-day visit to Viet Nam - Politics & Laws | Politics, Business, Economy, Society, Life, Sports - VietNam News - VietNam News



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Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh meets with former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk and King Norodom Sihamoni during their visit to Viet Nam. — VNA/VNS Photo Nhan Sang


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PM Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dũng visits former King Norodom Sinahouk, 23/4/2011 Phnom Penh, Cambodia


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25 May 1970, Hanoi, North Vietnam --- Hanoi, North Vietnam: Prince Norodom Sihanouk waves his hand during his arrival in Hanoi. At his right is North Vietnamese premier Pham Van Dong. Also seen is Premier Penn Nouth and North Vietnamese defense minister Vo Nguyen Giap (wearing helmet).



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February 1973: General Vo Nguyen Giap and his wife visit Norodom Sihanouk and Princess Monique in their residence located in a discrete location in Hanoi (Photo: NorodomSihanouk.info)
 
Cambodian court orders Chinese woman deported for desecrating pictures of late king
Published October 23, 2012 Associated Press

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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA – A Cambodian court found a Chinese factory supervisor guilty on Tuesday of desecrating pictures of the country's recently deceased former king and ordered her deported.

The court found Wang Zia Chao guilty of violating statutes on insulting the monarchy and gave her a one-year suspended jail sentence and a 2.5 million riel ($620) fine.

She was also ordered to pay 2 million riel ($500) in compensation to a worker at the factory who had demanded her prosecution.

The case appeared to be the first in recent decades in which the vaguely worded lese majeste law was applied.

The 43-year-old Chinese woman caused an uproar Monday at a garment factory complex in Phnom Penh's outskirts when she cut up two photos of former King Norodom Sihanouk that workers were carrying before the morning shift. She accused them of shirking work.

Sihanouk, who led Cambodia through peace and war, died Oct. 15 in Beijing at age 89. His body was returned last Wednesday to his homeland, where it was taken to the Royal Palace for a week of official mourning.

The factory supervisor told the court Tuesday that she did not know the photos were of the late monarch. "If I knew, I would not have ripped them up," she said.

More than 1,000 outraged workers marched Monday to the palace to demand she be punished, The factories' managers fired her and turned her over to the authorities.

Cambodian court orders Chinese woman deported for desecrating pictures of late king | Fox News
 
RIP. Khmer Rouge gained power due to King Sihanouk's support for them after Lon Nol deposed him. Khmer Rouge's ranks swell due to the support from the peasants who had no idea about communism but due to their loyalty to the king.
 
Public angered over Chinese woman's 'forced kowtow'
By Guo Kai (Global Times)
10:01, October 25, 2012

A Chinese woman who tore up former Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk's photos was forced by Cambodian police to kneel down in front of the king's portrait have triggered controversy among the Chinese public.

Although the Chinese government Tuesday expressed support for Cambodian authorities in holding the woman responsible for breaking local laws, some said making a Chinese citizen kowtow before a foreign king was illegal and too much to bear.

Public angered over Chinese woman's 'forced kowtow' - People's Daily Online
 
A look at the timeline of the life of former King of Cambodia:

Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk dies at 89
SOPHENG CHEANG | October 15, 2012 04:20 AM EST |

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Norodom Sihanouk, the revered former king who was a towering figure in Cambodian politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, died Monday. He was 89.

Sihanouk saw Cambodia transform from colony to kingdom, U.S.-backed regime to Khmer Rouge killing field and foreign-occupied land to guerrilla war zone – and finally to a fragile experiment with democracy.

He was a feudal-style monarch who called himself a democrat. He was beloved by his people but was seldom able to deliver the stability they craved through decades of violence.

Sihanouk abdicated the throne in 2004, citing his poor health. He had been getting medical treatment in China since January and had suffered a variety of illnesses, including colon cancer, diabetes and hypertension.

Prince Sisowath Thomico, a royal family member who also was Sihanouk's assistant, said the former king suffered a heart attack Monday at a Beijing hospital.

"His death was a great loss to Cambodia," Thomico said, adding that Sihanouk had dedicated his life "for the sake of his entire nation, country and for the Cambodian people."

Sihanouk's successor, Norodom Sihamoni, flew with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to Beijing on Monday to retrieve the body, said Col. Chhay Bunna, a senior police officer in charge of security at Phnom Penh's international airport.


State flags flew at half-staff, and Cambodian government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said an official funeral will be held once the former king's body is repatriated.

Born on Oct. 31, 1922, Sihanouk enjoyed a pampered childhood in French colonial Indochina.

In 1941, the French crowned 19-year-old Sihanouk rather than relatives closer in line to the throne, thinking the pudgy, giggling prince would be easy to control. They were the first of many to underestimate him, and by 1953 the French were out.

Two years later, Sihanouk stepped down from the throne, organized a mass political party and steered Cambodia toward uneasy neutrality at the height of the Cold War.

Sihanouk accepted limited U.S. aid and nurtured relations with Communist China. He was also a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Sihanouk was a ruthless politician, talented dilettante and tireless playboy, caught up in endless, almost childlike enthusiasms.

He made movies, painted, composed music, fielded a palace soccer team and led his own jazz band. His large appetite extended to fast cars, food and women. He married at least five times – some say six – and fathered 14 children.

After 1960, Sihanouk drifted toward the communist camp, seeking assurances from his powerful neighbors, China and Vietnam, that his country's neutrality would be respected.

In 1965, Sihanouk broke off relations with Washington as U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War shifted into high gear. But by 1969, worried about increasing Vietnamese communist use of Cambodian soil, he made new overtures to the United States and turned against China.

Sihanouk's top priority was to keep Cambodia out of the war, but he could not. U.S. aircraft bombed Vietnamese communist sanctuaries in Cambodia with increasing regularity, and his protests were ignored.

Internally, Cambodia was a one-man show. Sihanouk's sharpest critics accused him of running a medieval state as an ancient Khmer ruler reincarnated in Western dress.

"I am Sihanouk," he once said, "and all Cambodians are my children."

Nonetheless, the country was at relative peace and some attempts were made to better the life of the peasants, who adored Sihanouk as a near-deity.

Outsiders saw a country of shimmering temples and emerald green rice fields that seemed a chapter from an Oriental fairy tale. But that face of Cambodia would soon vanish.

In 1970, a U.S.-backed coup sent the prince to Beijing for years of lonely, if lavish, exile. Within weeks, war broke out, beginning a systematic destruction of Cambodia that killed millions and impoverished the survivors.

Sihanouk, seeking to regain the throne, joined the Khmer Rouge-dominated rebels after his overthrow. They had numbered only a few hundred until then, but his presence gave them a legitimacy they had never before enjoyed.

The alliance left Sihanouk open to subsequent criticism that he opened the way for the Khmer Rouge holocaust. But his relations with the rebels were always strained.

"The Khmer Rouge do not like me at all, and I know that. Ooh, la, la ... It is clear to me," he said in a 1973 interview. "When they no longer need me, they will spit me out like a cherry pit."

When the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975 and Sihanouk returned home, they detained him and ordered his execution. Only the personal intervention of Chinese leader Zhou Enlai saved him.

With Sihanouk under house arrest in the Royal Palace, the Khmer Rouge ran an ultra-radical Maoist regime from 1975 to 1979, emptying the cities to create a vast forced labor camp. An estimated 1.7 million Cambodians were executed or died of disease and hunger under their rule.

Vietnam invaded Cambodia in December 1978 and toppled the Khmer Rouge a few weeks later. Freed as the Vietnamese advanced on Phnom Penh, Sihanouk found exile in Beijing and North Korea.

From there, he headed an unlikely coalition of three guerrilla groups fighting the Vietnamese-installed puppet government. The war lasted a decade.

In a mix of politics and theater – bringing his French poodle to negotiations, singing love songs over elaborate dinners – Sihanouk engineered a cease-fire and moves toward national unity and peace.

Sihanouk headed the U. N.-supported interim structure that ran Cambodia until the 1993 elections, lending his prestige to attempts to unite Cambodia's factions.

The election was won by the royalist FUNCINPEC party of Sihanouk's son Prince Norodom Ranariddh. But it was forced into a coalition with the Cambodian People's Party of former Khmer Rouge officer Hun Sen.

In September 1993, Sihanouk re-ascended the throne in a traditional Khmer coronation.

But the bright promise of the elections soon faded.

Four years after the polls, Hun Sen ended his constant bickering with Ranariddh by overthrowing the prince in a violent coup that shattered the results of the election.

International pressure forced Hun Sen to accept Ranariddh's return for a second election in 1998, which was narrowly won by Hun Sen, but ended in more bloodshed as the royalists and other opposition parties forced a constitutional crisis by refusing to join a coalition with the CPP.

Sihanouk stayed on the sidelines for most of the two-year crisis, but as demonstrators clashed in the streets of Phnom Penh, he finally intervened by urging Ranariddh to accept a new coalition with his enemy Hun Sen.

During his last years, Sihanouk's profile and influence receded. While old people in the countryside still held him in reverence, the young generation regarded him as a figure of the past and one partly responsible for Cambodia's tragedy.

Rarely at a loss for words, he became for a time a prolific blogger, posting his musings on current affairs and past controversies. Most of his writing was literally in his own hand – his site featured images of letters, usually in French in a cramped cursive script, along with handwritten marginalia to news clippings that caught his interest.

His production tailed off, however, as he retreated further from the public eye, spending more and more time under doctor's care in Beijing.

The hard-living Sihanouk had suffered ill health since the early 1990s. He endured cancer, a brain lesion and arterial, heart, lung, liver and eye ailments.

Ailing and weary of politics, Sihanouk stepped down from the throne in 2004 in favor of Sihamoni, a well-liked personality but one with little of the experience needed to negotiate Cambodia's political minefields.

Senior officials in Hun Sen's party were said to favor Sihamoni, a one-time ballet dancer and cultural ambassador, rather than a more combative figure to sit atop the influential throne.

In late 2011, on his return from another extended stay in China, Sihanouk dramatically declared that he never intended to leave his homeland again. But true to his mercurial reputation, he flew off to Beijing just a few months later for medical care.

During the same period, some of the defendants at Cambodia's U.N.-assisted genocide trial of former senior Khmer Rouge figures sought to divert blame from themselves by suggesting that Sihanouk, as their collaborator, shared responsibility for their actions, despite his powerlessness as their virtual prisoner.

In January, Sihanouk requested that he be cremated in the Cambodian and Buddhist tradition, asking that his ashes be put in an urn, preferably made of gold, and placed in a stupa at the country's Royal Palace.

Cambodia’s Former King Norodom Sihanouk Dies at 89 | TIME.com
 
rip king Norodom Sinahouk what a great man

Viets should get out of this thread, giving the man a little bit respect. The King fought against French, American, Vietnamese, and Khmer Rouge. He hated the Vietnamese so much. He spoke in the UN that he could not thank VN even though Viets defeated Pol Pot. You were invaders.

not only him the entire cambodia nation hated vietnam

While I found Cambodians to be nice, I’m not so sure how nice they are to Vietnamese people and that’s because they literally HATE the Vietnamese people. When I told many Cambodians that I am currently living in Vietnam, the common response was a quick in-take of breath, eye brows quickly raised followed by a short comment like ‘oh do you actually like it?’ I had been warned by the other fellows in Cambodia about this aversion, and remained skeptical until I actually arrived and heard it first hand from many Cambodians that they disliked the Vietnamese.

The Cambodian-Vietnamese Love-Hate Relationship « Vietnam Adventures
 
rip king Norodom Sinahouk what a great man



not only him the entire cambodia nation hated vietnam

While I found Cambodians to be nice, I’m not so sure how nice they are to Vietnamese people and that’s because they literally HATE the Vietnamese people. When I told many Cambodians that I am currently living in Vietnam, the common response was a quick in-take of breath, eye brows quickly raised followed by a short comment like ‘oh do you actually like it?’ I had been warned by the other fellows in Cambodia about this aversion, and remained skeptical until I actually arrived and heard it first hand from many Cambodians that they disliked the Vietnamese.

The Cambodian-Vietnamese Love-Hate Relationship « Vietnam Adventures

A travel blog is not a representative of a nation's opinion. If it is, on the same token will you accept my views as someone who have travelled to Cambodia and have interracted with few Cambodians and had discussions with them ranging from issues like Khmer Rouge to why Cambodian kids speak English when compared to Vietnamese or Thai kids?
 
rip king Norodom Sinahouk what a great man



not only him the entire cambodia nation hated vietnam

While I found Cambodians to be nice, I’m not so sure how nice they are to Vietnamese people and that’s because they literally HATE the Vietnamese people. When I told many Cambodians that I am currently living in Vietnam, the common response was a quick in-take of breath, eye brows quickly raised followed by a short comment like ‘oh do you actually like it?’ I had been warned by the other fellows in Cambodia about this aversion, and remained skeptical until I actually arrived and heard it first hand from many Cambodians that they disliked the Vietnamese.

The Cambodian-Vietnamese Love-Hate Relationship « Vietnam Adventures

Polpot and his followers don't love us.
 

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