The Emperor Sihanouk I know

On September 15, the enrollment of the 100th anniversary of the Cambodian Emperor Sihanouk's birthday was held in Beijing. The guests at the meeting highly evaluated the major contribution of the Emperor Sihanouk's independence and development of the Cambodian nation and the friendship between China and Cambodia. Fu Xuezhang, who was a Chinese ambassador to Cambodia, had a lot of relationships with Sihanouk and formed a deep friendship. At the symposium, Ambassador Fu Xuezhang was deeply remembered by Emperor Xihanuk.

△ On October 1, 2009, Noroton Sihanouk (left) and his wife Monile participated in the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing.

The political career of King Sihanouk is legendary, both ups and downs and repeatedly wins. He has evolved and integrated with the bumpy fate of his motherland. During his sixty years of perspective, eight changes have taken place in the state system, and four of them have changed the nature of Qiankun. However, the final result was: Cambodia's independence sovereignty has recovered, the territory is complete, the kingdom's system has returned, and his leadership position has been re -established.

Cambodia's tortuous and complicated modern history was the result of the mutual influence and interaction of various factors at home and abroad. The decisive factor leading the direction of leading the development and ultimately played a key role was the fundamental desire and overall consciousness of the Cambodian nation. History has proven that King Sihanouk is the highest symbol of the Cambodian nation. His compassionate morality, patriotism and love, random response wisdom, and courage to not be afraid are the concentration of the Cambodian nation to good consciousness and aggressive spirit. Essence After his abdication, the extremely distinguished titles sent by the Cambodian nations and people were: "Great Hero King" and "Father of the Khmer" to always remember and praise his great achievements.

Adhering to independence and ensuring the integrity of the territory is his top priority. In the early struggle to fight for independence with the old colonialism, and in the struggle to maintain independence with emerging imperialism later, he always adhered to the goals of "independence" and "peaceful neutral", without shrinking or shaking. Faced with the threat of the old colonialist claiming to "abandon" and "break the diplomatic relations", he unswervingly stated: "I want to strive for complete independence for Cambodia compatriots, and we cannot give up my goal to accommodate bilateral relations." Facing the lies of the new imperialist's so -called "the threat of the Communist Party's aggression", he has seen it from the beginning. In 1955, he refused to join the "Southeast Asian Treaty Organization". After that, imperialism opposed him and subverted his hostility and never stopped.

He always adhered to his principles and policies, shattered the conspiracy and assassination activities of the public and hidden enemies in various fields. He dared to compete with the unreasonable imperialist behemoth with a small body of a small country. He has always been firm and flexible, with both long -term strategic vision and flexible response measures; not only exerts the wisdom and talents of diplomats, but also shows the bones and style of great patriots.

It is the development path and direction that he has been advancing with the times and the development of the prosperity to benefit the people. He is familiar with history and wrote a brief history of the Cambodian dynasty. The rise and fall of Angkor's era and the loss of large land after the 14th century were the pain of the Khmer nation. From the beginning of the throne, he has made up his mind to compensate for the future of national development and progress, and make spiritual compensation for unfortunate historical fate.

To this end, he was based on the idea of ​​"selection and integration" to explore the development path suitable for the national conditions. He took the initiative to change the monarchy to the constitutional monarchy, reduce or abolish some royal family rights, and increase the weight of public opinion and civil rights in the national management mechanism. Later, he took the initiative to be inferior to the popular social and political life as an ordinary politician, and played in a unique way. He created the "People's Socialist Alliance" and passed the election to form a cabinet. He also held the "National Congress of the country" from time to time, providing ordinary people with opportunities and rights to discuss national affairs.

From 1955 to 1970, the "Society of Society Alliance" was the fastest and most prosperous period in Cambodia. In addition to the effectiveness of political reform, because of the economic reforms he personally advocated in 1963, he has strengthened national management functions for the circulation links of finance and foreign trade. It has adopted appropriately adopted the production and sales of large agricultural products such as rice and rubber, and adopted appropriately. Coordinated measures.

He also attaches special attention to the development of education, hygiene, transportation and other fields closely related to the people's lives. In particular, in terms of developing agricultural production and improving the living conditions of the vast number of rural people, necessary support measures are adopted to allocate land to farmers, and help them improve production technology; specifically set up to improve the rural housing committee, and allocate special funds to provide financial support to support funding support Essence

In addition, he often goes to the construction site and the field to participate in labor and personally experience the lives of grassroots people. He also opened a special channel for "through traffic", and regularly met with petitioners to listen to their voice directly and solve their real difficulties. After abdication, he also insisted on sending relief supplies to the poor. These specific social practice activities that he took the lead in actively promoted the good fashion of "respecting the people, loving the people, and benefiting the people" in the whole society.

It is an important contribution to his international justice and maintaining world peace. As a devout Buddhist, he practically practiced the "Pure Hearts and True Scriptures", which is generally admired by theravada Buddhism, with the theme of "sympathy and love". In his minds, the people of the Cambodian people are concerned about the people of Cambodia, but also the people of Indozu (that is, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos). As early as seventy years ago, he solemnly stated to the new and old colonialists: "To fight for truly complete national independence is the overall desire of the three countries of Indozuu"; The national liberation struggle. " In response to Western powers, he was in the strategy of promoting the "Asians to fight Asians", and he resolutely refused and was telling the other party: Cambodia must not agree to be used as a base against the Communist Party of Vietnam. He agreed with what Chairman Hu Zhiming said: "There is nothing else, which is more precious than the country." He said: "I am different from him, but our common point is: to maintain the independence of the country unremittingly!" Later In the years, he advocated the Geneva conference on Laos issues and the highest meeting of the three peoples of Indozu. He made great historical significance to strengthen the unity and friendship between the people of Indozuku, to co -oppose foreign aggression and achieve complete victory. King Sihanouk also pays great attention to the peace and development of Asia and the world. He has made positive efforts to create and expand the non -alliance, to support non -colonization and opposition racial discrimination. He adheres to the "five principles of peace in peace" and the "ten principles of the Bandung Conference", and actively advocates to solve territorial disputes and international disputes through peaceful negotiations. He resolutely opposed the nuclear test in Africa, and he also resolutely opposed some of the Moscow's part of the Nuclear Treaty in 1963. Although several major nuclear powers put pressure on him to put pressure on him, he always refused to sign. On the issue of the right and wrong of human fate, it shows the spirit of not being afraid of power, stress, and daring to promote the spirit of human conscience. Essence

More than eighty years ago, Master Jueguang, a monk of Cambodia, wrote an eulogy for King Sihanouk. The main content was: to dominate his soul and fate, to make the proud ancient country and the foundation of the foundation from generation to generation; To maintain the strong will of rock, keep in mind the glory of the Angkor era, and firmly believe that your motherland will be rich and strong in the test ...

Later, this became the lyrics of the National Anthem of the Kingdom of Cambodia, so far. This is his deepest admiration and sincere respect for his Cambodian compatriots.

△ After the signing of the Paris Peace Agreement on October 23, 1991, Prince Sihanouk (right) took a photo with Ambassador Fu Xuezhang who was about to leave Cambodia on the plane.

More than fifty years ago, my friends in Cambodia and I often sang a song together. The lyrics are: Ah, China, who is in love, you are a big country. Defend the people of all countries and maintain human peace ...

This is the song "Miss China" created by Prince Sihanouk when Prince Sihanouk visited China in the 1960s. His accurate cognition of China and his true emotions for China deeply moved the Chinese people who were called "the second motherland". At this moment, with the same affection, I have the most lofty respect and deepest nostalgia for this great friend who is compatible with our liver and gallbladder.

Author: Fu Xuezhang Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia

Responsible editor: Yuan Yanan, Zhang Yibo

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