He is great guy . He went through the worst time and drag his people and his country and nation out from the Holocaust and preserve the Cambodia culture and traditional value of Ancient Khmer and he did not allow the Vietnamese 100% to absorb Cambodia like Vietnamese has done to Laos .At least Cambodia have the chance to united all the Cambodia inside and outside of Cambodia( In United States , Australia and Europe and every counties in the world )and allow all the well educated and intelligent Cambodian to come back and rebuild Cambodia. The Cambodian voice could be heard that means there is the election and became the member of the world community and not isolated like Lao PDR.
I knew he had prostate cancer or something and that he had to visit China regularly for treatment.
I feel a bit sad because he represented a big figure in the politics of Indochina history for a very long time. He tried to keep Cambodia independent from France and then from the US and from more powerful neighbors. May he rest in peace!
Sihanouk (R) toasts with Vietnamese Premier Phan Van Dong (L) during a visit to Hanoi in 1970. Sihanouk was deposed by Cambodian forces of Lt.-Gen. Lon Nol in March 1970 and formed an ill-fated alliance with North Vietnam and an underground Marxist insurgency group, the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot. (Lam Hong/AFP/Getty Images)
Norodom Sihanouk (middle), Chairman Mao Zedong (left) and Zhou Enlai
Then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk (R) during a meeting with Khmer Rouge leaders in Cambodia's "so-called" liberation zone, in April 1973
Khieu Samphan, third from left in 1973 and flanked by the royal couple. In his memoir Sihanouk has only good things to say about Samphan, partly because the latter gifted him a radio set to tune into Voice of America and other external broadcasts during his house arrest in Phnom Penh
Sihanouk with French generals in Paris in 1946
From left: King Sihanouk, President Nguyen Huu Tho, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, and Chairman Souphanouvong, at the Indochina People's Conference.
I'm not a Cambodian citizens, But seeing these Photos make me choke and tear coming down on my cheek. and I'm grade that all lao in here made really positive comment about his majesty king. not like one our neighbors made really bad about his majesty king.
Rest in peace, your Majesty King......................