Word: khmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant rise from French army corporal-dap means corporal-to guerrilla leader, against first the French and then the Communist Viet Minh, Dap Chhuon had been named Royal Delegate and Governor of the Siemréap area, which includes the renowned ruins of the lost 12th century Khmer civilization of Angkor Wat. Slim, natty Dap Chhuon made Siemréap his personal fief with three battalions of Cambodia's 31,000-man army under his personal command...
Soothing Words. What had changed the prince's mind? For centuries Cambodia, heir of the lost civilization of Khmer, has had to fight off incursions from its close neighbors-Viet Nam, Thailand, Burma. Two months ago a Viet Nam battalion occupied three Cambodian border villages, after having previously imprisoned a number of Cambodian peasants. Sihanouk appeared to think invasion was imminent...
Shifting Crown. The new Sihanouk role was that of kingmaker. In a ceremony of dazzling Oriental splendor last week he crowned his own father King of Cambodia. Long Sihanouk's close adviser, elderly (60), diabetic Suramarit and his statuesque wife Kossaman are members of the Khmer dynasty which goes back before recorded history, but neither was in the direct line of royal descent in 1941 when the French bent the legitimacy to make young Sihanouk King. Sihanouk, who deeply respects his parents, saw that the coronation got the full Oriental treatment, with dragon dancers, marching mandarins, hundreds of warriors...
...general astonishment, he persuaded the French government to authorize him, at the age of 22, to conduct an expedition to an unexplored area of Cambodia, where he had deduced that 1,000-year-old Khmer statues still lay undiscovered along the ancient Royal Way to Angkor Vat. In 1923, he and his first wife, Clara Goldschmidt, plunged into Cambodia's jungles, found the statues, and lugged them out on oxcarts. The French colonial authorities promptly impounded them as historical monuments, and put Malraux on trial for trying to remove them. His wife rushed back to France, succeeded in getting...
...voiced Khmer, the recorded voice of King Norodom continued: "I announce publicly my intention to abandon power and the throne. I shall go down among my people, living with the humblest, taking nothing with me from the palace ... I designate my parents to succeed...