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http://www.google.com/hostednews ... 929083566b40e95.791 西哈努克亲王遗体将在今天举行盛大的告别仪式后火化。国内外政要，包括日本天皇，法国领导人，东南亚领导人，都会参加告别仪式。“今天是我们最后能看到亲王和敬拜他的日子，他就要去天堂了”西哈努克亲王的长期看护，王子thamico说道。 “今天是让全国最后敬拜亲王的日子。他是柬埔寨的英雄”王子thamico说道。 西哈努克亲王60年以来影响了柬埔寨的历史，知道去年10月在北京应为心脏病突发辞世，享年89岁。柬埔寨的街道被哀悼的人拥堵。西哈努克亲王的遗体在皇宫停放了3个月。告别仪式后西哈努克亲王的遗孀和儿子会送他去天国（象征性的点燃焚烧炉） 400个被赫免的罪犯也会参加仪式，仪式会鸣枪101响。西哈努克亲王的骨灰会被撒在湄公河和Tonle Sap, Tonle Bassac三天河流的交汇处。剩余的骨灰会被带回皇宫保管。 西哈努克亲王一生结婚6次有14个孩子。在宝座上60年后，2004年西哈努克亲王让位。期间带领柬埔寨脱离法国移民统治，脱离高棉恐怖，内战，被流放。直到逝世。1950-60年代是比较和平的年代。 西哈努克亲王是亲毛主义。他自己喜欢作诗，看电影，写歌词，柬埔寨人民很拥护他。 PHNOM PENH — Cambodia is due to hold an elaborate cremation ceremony on Monday for its revered former king Norodom Sihanouk, part of a week-long funeral for the colourful late royal. Foreign dignitaries including French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, Japan's Prince Akishino and several Southeast Asian leaders are due to attend the ceremony, which starts at 0900 GMT, along with relatives of the late royal. "It's the last day for us all to pay homage to the great hero king and to send him to heaven," said Sihanouk's long-time personal assistant Prince Sisowath Thomico. "It is the day for the whole nation to say goodbye to his majesty. He is the hero of Cambodia," Thomico told AFP, but added that only officials and guests would be allowed inside the actual cremation site in Phnom Penh. Sihanouk, who towered over six tumultuous decades in his nation's history, died of a heart attack in Beijing in October, aged 89. Crowds of mourners lined the streets of the Cambodian capital Friday for a lavish funeral procession for Sihanouk, though attendance appeared to fall well short of the one million people predicted by the government. Sihanouk's embalmed body had been lying in state at the palace for three months before it was transported to a specially built crematorium in a Phnom Penh park. After religious ceremonies on Monday, his widow Monique and son King Norodom Sihamoni are expected to symbolically light the pyre, although Thomico said that "modern techniques" would be used in the cremation. More than 400 recently pardoned prisoners will also attend the event, which will be marked by a 101-gun salute. After the cremation, some of Sihanouk's ashes will be scattered where the Mekong, Tonle Sap, and Tonle Bassac rivers meet. The remainder will be taken to the royal palace on Thursday where they will be kept in a royal urn. A father of 14 children over six marriages, Sihanouk abdicated in 2004 after steering Cambodia through six decades marked by independence from France, civil war, the murderous Khmer Rouge regime, his own exile and finally peace. Many elderly Cambodians credit him with overseeing a rare period of political stability in the 1950s and 1960s, following independence, until the Khmer Rouge emerged in the 1970s. Up to two million people died under their reign of terror, including five of Sihanouk's own children. But even though the ever-changeable monarch had allied himself with the Maoist movement, Sihanouk -- a self-confessed "naughty boy" who loved to direct films, write poetry and compose songs -- remained hugely popular among Cambodians. "I'm really in shock. But I'm glad that I had a chance to see him off," said Sum Seun, 60, one of thousands of mourners over the weekend who visited the crematorium site to pay respects to the gilded casket which could be glimpsed through its doorways. "Since I was young, I saw him doing good things for the country," he said. "He earned independence, peace, and prosperity for the country. Now he has gone, I'm worried that peace might vanish in the future." |
