Phnom Penh Post
Prime Minister Hun
Sen (L) greets a group of Buddhist nuns at the opening ceremony for a
new building in Phnom Penh, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Photograph: Heng
Chivoan/Phnom Penh Post
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday he believed that the February
4th cremation of King Father Norodom Sihanouk was a miracle, and noted
that of all the participants who put a burning candle wick to the
funeral pyre, only he was successful in lighting the fire.
Speaking at an inauguration ceremony at Preah Sihamoni Reachea
Buddhist University in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district yesterday, Hun
Sen said that the attempts of the first four people – King Norodom
Sihamoni, Queen Mother Norodom Monineath and two chief monks – had
failed because candles had gone out and portions of the pyre failed to
ignite.
After they tried, Hun Sen said, he stepped in. The flames caught and spread.
The cremation of Sihanouk, who died last year at age 89, had begun.
The unexpected turn in the proceedings was unusual when compared with
past cremations. Traditionally, it’s the successor, in this case King
Sihamoni, who is responsible for lighting the fire. Sihanouk fulfilled
this duty for the cremation of his own father, King Suramarit, in 1960.
Nhek Bunn Chhay, a member of the royal funeral committee, said the
official government plan for the ceremony called for King Sihamoni and
Queen Mother Monineath to light the flame.
Hun Sen explained the initial lack of fire as a kind of spiritual
force of the departed Sihanouk, who, the premier said, wasn’t quite
ready to bid farewell to his family.
“I have told the Queen Mother and King that he didn’t want to leave
his children. Queen Mother said that the King Father [Sihanouk] waits
for Samdech Prime Minister,” Hun Sen said. “This is due to a miracle of
his power. It is not a technical problem.”
Independent political analyst Chea Vannath said Hun Sen was
omnipresent during Sihanouk’s funeral, and so it comes as no surprise
that he would play a bigger role in the cremation rites.
She said the action also exemplified the way that Hun Sen took the
limelight off of Sihanouk and the royal family at the funeral and
redirected it on his own image.
“Everything else was overshadowed by his presence,” she said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Meas Sokchea at
sokchea.meas@phnompenhpost.com
6 comments:
Show off and conspiracy, Hun Sen's men have organized this stage to show the trick. Those candles given to King and Queen and chief monks were intended to be failure.
At the cremation , Khmers & foreign mourners
said their common prayer that the King Father ' soul " will rest in peace " . Hun Sen who has determined to use
the popularity of Sihanouk for the upcoming election campaign will not let his soul to rest . Hun Sen voodoo magic was set up by CPP engineer for the illusion . It's exactly Viet Cong policy that is using the embalmed body
of Ho Chi Minh for tourism . Hun Sen who joined Viet Cong
in Khmer jungle has became a die -hard communist that he
has never believed anything miracle but he has vision that
Khmer mourners are gullible and can be cheated easily .
Viet Cong is using uncle HO for national interest , Hun Sen is using the late
King Father for his personal power .
Sdach sinorook will gets you Hun dumb sen!...Sdach sinorook said;he'll needs you in hell to be his personal servant so sinorook will use Hun dumb sen to clean his butt..Miracle my ass its technical problems....
Maybe later on Hun sen can claim that he can turn someone into a monkey. be careful.
KHMER SHOULD NEVER CALL HO CHI MINH "UNCLE HO". FOR SURE HE IS NOT KHMER'S UNCLE, HE IS YUON'S UNCLE.
WHAT KHMER AND PARTICULARLY KHMER LEADERS SHOULD DO IS TO USE HO CHI MINH'S IDEOLOGY FOR KHMER PEOPLE AND KHMER COUNTRY. JUST LIKE HO DID FOR HIS PEOPLE AND HIS COUNTRY. BUT NEVER CALL HIM "UNCLE HO" DON'T BE STUPID, KHMER.
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