Condolences for King Sihanouk Arrive From Home and Abroad
Local and foreign dignitaries offered their condolences to the royal family on news of the death in Beijing yesterday of King Father Norodom Sihanouk, who led his country out of colonial rule in the 1950s and went on to play a leading role in the country’s modern history. Son Soubert, a former politician, statesman and adviser to the late King, said he would be remembered first and foremost as the father of Cambodia’s independence from France in 1953. … Mr. Soubert said the King Father would also be remembered as a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement. Formed in 1961, the group defied geopolitical pressures to take sides at the height of the Cold War and brought together such world leaders as Josep Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Jawaharlal Nehru of India, and Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. …
