Name: Norodom Sihanouk
Occupation: King of Cambodia and Notorist of Killing Field
According to Cambodian history, King Norodom Sihanouk worked with Khmer Rouge and Vietcong to kill more than 2 millions of Cambodian People between 1975 and 1979. You can find out more by watching the video clip from documentary. We should bring King Norodom Sihanouk to
trial for genocide of Cambodian people.
Also You watch the full documentary from Year Zero.
A Cambodian nationalist and political leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk (born 1922) secured Cambodia's independence from French colonial rule and sought to protect his country from the repercussions of Great Power rivalries.
The first of the four children of Prince Norodom Suramarit and Princess Monivong Kossamak, Prince Norodom Sihanouk was born in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh on Oct. 31, 1922. He was a direct descendant of the great 19th-century King Norodom, who was succeeded upon his death in 1904 by a half brother rather than a son. The colonial French encouraged Sihanouk's selection as king in 1941 because they feared the outspokenly nationalist heir apparent of the line of King Norodom's half brother. Sihanouk, who already enjoyed a reputation as a playboy, was picked because the French perceived him as pliable.
Sihanouk was raised in a quite modest environment by his musically talented parents, in whose footsteps he partly followed as an accomplished saxophonist. Educated in French at an ordinary day school in Phnom Penh, Sihanouk was subsequently sent to a secondary school in Saigon in Vietnam, which, like Cambodia, was then part of French Indochina. He did not complete his secondary schooling, however--let alone continue on to a university--because of his recall to Phnom Penh in 1941, at the age of 18, to be enthroned as king.
Sihanouk's coronation took place 10 months after the fall of France, whose Indochinese empire fell under the practical direction of the expanding Japanese--who controlled neighboring Vietnam and Laos. During the first years of his reign as king, Sihanouk was a prisoner in his own palace. Although he subsequently proclaimed Cambodian independence from France in March 1945, encouraged by the retreating Japanese, he came fairly quickly to terms with the returning French after the war. He also opposed demands by the national legislatures elected in 1947 and 1951 for a redeclaration of independence from France.
Sarith's quote:
Now they hold only 2 people for genocide of Cambodian people, but King Norodom Sihanouk is still a free man. The international court should bring King Norodom Sihanouk, Hun Sen, Khiev Samphan, Hok Long Dy, Hor Nam Hong, and many more to stand trial for the murder of Cambodian people. If these people are still a free man, Cambodia has no justic for the millions victims of genocide.
Date: 09/21/2007
Url:
http://www.bookrags.com/Norodo ....
Author: Sarith San
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